colleague

Definition:
An associate you work with.
A person who is member of your class or profession.

Use 'colleague' in a sentence:

• 1. He is leaving his north London business in the hands of a colleague.
• 2. I had to take a week off work but my colleagues were very good about it.
• 3. Several of his colleagues had a hand in his downfall.
• 4. I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues.
• 5. "I am sorry," said the Owl, "to have to contradict the Crow, my famous friend and colleague."
• 6. On his retirement, colleagues presented him with a set of golf clubs.
• 7. He was fired from his job after roughing up a colleague.
• 8. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one.
• 9. Solving time hair on the problem, use mind on unitive colleague.
• 10. As my colleague Vann Newkirk reported, Puerto Rico is still confronting economic and structural destruction and resource scarcity from 2017 s Hurricane Maria.
• 11. He spoke disparagingly of his colleagues.
• 12. I invited some of my colleagues but not all.
• 13. It may take time but one candidate surely will emerge as the best colleague and researcher.
• 14. He was too embarrassed to bring it up in front of the colleague.
• 15. "She's badly in need of some TLC," said one colleague.
• 16. His discovery extinguished the achievements of his colleague.
• 17. She is held in high esteem by her colleagues.
• 18. He tried to shift the blame for his mistakes onto his colleagues.
• 19. I am a colleague of Brenda.
• 20. My colleague mentioned how the theory of relativity completely changed the field of physics.
• 21. He was accused of sexually molesting a female colleague.
• 22. Without consulting his colleagues he flew from Lisbon to Split.
• 23. "The road probably doesn't rank with the pyramids as a construction feat, but it is a major engineering achievement," said his colleague, geologist James Harrell of the University of Toledo.
• 24. The dictionary meaning of the term "associate" is "colleague" ; "friend" ; "companion".
• 25. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped.
• 26. As one banker says to a whining colleague, "You're getting out of a Mercedes to go into the Federal Reserve."
• 27. He said a colleague told him the wreckage was needed to fill in a muddy ditch to make rescue efforts easier.
• 28. His incompetent colleague was axed as a warning to other employees.
• 29. Her colleagues could not fault her dedication to the job.
• 30. She puts a high valuation on trust between colleagues.
• 31. Her colleagues were green with envy.
• 32. A colleague of mine in Milan devised the following very clever little experiment.
• 33. She felt unappreciated both by her colleagues and her seniors.
• 34. Colleagues regard him as a safe pair of hands.
• 35. His colleagues, meanwhile, were busily scheming to get rid of him.
• 36. May I invite my colleague Mr. Johnson next time?
• 37. He was accused of plagiarizing his colleague's results.
• 38. Sara, my colleague, has been on the run all week preparing for her son's wedding.
• 39. He'd had a steamy affair with an office colleague.
• 40. A former Economist colleague, for example, reported being ruder in Hebrew than in English.
• 41. He is a colleague of mine.
• 42. My colleague is an award winning journalist.
• 43. Now, my colleague and I would like to take questions.
• 44. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention.
• 45. Her action earned her the enmity of two or three colleagues.
• 46. The constable received a distress call, and saw two youths attacking his colleague.
• 47. Wave: About this, you must go to ask your China's colleague.
• 48. We were friends and colleagues for more than 20 years.
• 49. He was ostracized by his colleagues for refusing to support the strike.
• 50. You must not mention your colleague under any circumstances.
• 51. He bounced ideas off colleagues everywhere he went.
• 52. His colleagues see him as a future director.
• 53. Have a harmonious cooperation with colleague and working for the company.
• 54. "This is the oldest example of saws being used for cutting stone," said Bown's colleague James Hoffineier of Wheaton College in Illinois.
• 55. The news of her promotion went over well with her colleagues.
• 56. He had allegedly tried to proposition a colleague.
• 57. I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly thirty years.
• 58. Jim was described by his colleagues as 'unusual'.
• 59. a colleague of mine from the office.
• 60. She discussed the idea with some of her colleagues.
• 61. This put him and his colleagues in a difficult position.
• 62. For Joseph, a colleague at Chloe's office, it is Bach playing on the stereo before the screech of brakes and the crunch of metal.
• 63. His outspoken behaviour did not commend itself to his colleagues.
• 64. A colleague, for example?
• 65. They rated him highly as a colleague.
• 66. A colleague made unwelcome sexual advances towards her.
• 67. A colleague urged him to see a psychiatrist, but Faulkner refused.
• 68. As a priest and policeman talked to her through loudhailers from the street, John and his colleague quietly made their way up the stairs of the six-story building to the roof.
• 69. She was reproached by colleagues for leaking the story to the press.
• 70. Graduate students and postdocs, who often are working on their lab head's grant, may have no choice if their supervisor or another senior colleague opposes sharing.
• 71. In international hotels, you may find it served, but if you are having a meal with an Indian colleague, remember to avoid asking for a beer if your arrival coincides with one of those dates.
• 72. For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business: "Yes, I'm glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details."
• 73. He gives Italian lessons to his colleagues.
• 74. I took a quick straw poll among my colleagues to see how many agreed.
• 75. Her resignation put her colleagues in a spin.
• 76. She'd given the bug to all her colleagues.
• 77. He had been invited to sup with a colleague and his wife.
• 78. There is no place for white collar to relax and chat with colleague and friends.
• 79. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues for their support.
• 80. The biological project is now in trouble, you know, my colleague and I have completely different ideas about how to proceed.
• 81. He grimaced and looked narrowly at his colleague.