All 10 Uses of

colleague
in
In Cold Blood

Setbacks occurred-twice the wheat crop failed, and one winter he lost several hundred head of sheep in a blizzard; but after a decade Mr. Clutter's do-main consisted of over eight hundred acres owned outright and three thousand more worked on a rental basis-and that, as his colleagues admitted, was "a pretty good spread.†
Chpt 1

colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

Dewey-and the majority of his colleagues, as well-favored the second hypothesis, which in many essentials followed the first, the important difference being that the killer was not alone but had an accomplice, who helped subdue the family, tape, and tie them.†
Chpt 2

Members of the K.B.I, are partial to nicknames; Duntz is known as Old Man-unfairly, since he is not quite fifty, a burly but light-footed man with a broad, tomcat face, and Church, who is sixty or so, pink-skinned and professorial looking, but "tough "according to his colleagues, and "the fastest draw in Kansas," is called Curly, because his head is partly hairless.†
Chpt 2

But even if the man's every word was gospel, Dewey and his colleagues had not yet unearthed one bit of solid supporting evidence—"courtroom evidence.†
Chpt 3

colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

Dewey and his colleague K.B.I. Agent Clarence Duntz stood waiting for a free table in the Trail Room.†
Chpt 3 *

The driver, via the rear-view mirror, glances at his colleague, attracts his eye, and Duntz slightly nods, as if in tribute.†
Chpt 3

The article, printed in The American Journal of Psychiatry (July, 1960), and written in collaboration with three colleagues, Karl Menninger, Irwin Rosen, and Martin Mayman, states its aim at the outset: "In attempting to assess the criminal responsibility of murderers, the law tries to divide them (as it does all offenders) into two groups, the 'sane' and the 'insane.†
Chpt 4

colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

In the opinion of Dr. Satten and his colleagues, Andrews' crime amounted to such an un-debatable example of diminished responsibility that the case offered an ideal chance to challenge the M'Naghten Rule in Kansas courts.†
Chpt 4

Definition:

fellow worker -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law