All 5 Uses
colleague
in
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
(Edited)
- As the officer speaks to a more senior colleague, Gita looks around the large room.
p. 85.4 *colleague = fellow worker
- The escorting officer directs Gita toward her colleague, and Gita stumbles, still suffering the aftereffects of the typhus.
p. 85.6
- The colleague breaks her fall before roughly shoving her away.
p. 85.7
- "I'm Cilka," Gita's new colleague says.
p. 86.6
- I do not want to find myself sharing my bed with one of your colleagues, several of whom, I have observed, have no interest in the girls we bring them.
p. 239.4colleagues = fellow workers
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)