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colleagues

Syllables: col·leaguesUK/ˈkɒliːɡz/US/ˈkɑliɡz/

colleagues is the plural of colleague.

colleagues is the third-person singular simple present indicative of colleague.

Meaning of colleague

Noun

colleague (plural colleagues)

  1. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
    • Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.[…]Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3

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Questions about colleagues

What is colleagues the plural of?
Colleagues is the plural of colleague.
How do you pronounce colleagues?
Colleagues is pronounced /ˈkɑliɡz/ (US).

Words near colleagues in the dictionary

  1. colle
  2. Colle System
  3. colleages
  4. colleague
  5. colleagued
  6. colleagues
  7. colleagueship
  8. colleagueships
  9. colleaguing
  10. collect
  11. collect call

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