All 9 Uses
colleague
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Tamar, by Mal Peet
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- One of your colleagues gave us this information just before he died.†
*colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- Colonel, I think my colleague was trying to ask what our roles will be now.†
- Several of our people—your colleagues—are death candidates right now.†
colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- Some of you, some of your colleagues, have left letters with me.†
- We are colleagues, so naturally we will use first names.†
- Before the war I had a colleague who used to wire patients up and shoot a dose of electricity through their brains.†
- Dart held out his hand to take it back, but the young man turned away and went to confer with his older colleague.†
- Maurice's colleague, a tight-belted and bright-eyed woman calling herself Zena, said, "My brother is a death candidate in Amersfoort.†
- Tamar said, "I had to bang a few heads together, but I've persuaded our bickering colleagues that staying alive is a fairly important part of the resistance effort.†
colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
Definitions:
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(1)
(colleague) fellow worker -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)