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. 239.4

colleagues = fellow workers

Definitions:

(1) (colleague)
fellow worker -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)