Definition: 1. An associate you work with. 2. 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.
