collegiality

collegiality noun: collegial atmosphere; working with colleagues in an effective and cooperative manner.

Noun

collegiality (countable and uncountable, plural collegialities)

collegial atmosphere; working with colleagues in an effective and cooperative manner
- To what extent does collegiality still exist in the management here?2003, Nigel Bennett, Megan Crawford, Marion Cartwright, Effective Educational Leadership, SAGE, →ISBN, page 248
- Within a global law firm there is plainly a need for a common culture and collegiality: every lawyer a client deals with anywhere in the world is a representative of the firm and needs to exhibit common values. The teamwork which is critical to a global firm strategy is based on a collegial...2010, Laura Empson, Managing the Modern Law Firm: New Challenges, New Perspectives, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 213
power and authority that is shared among peers, especially the sharing of collegiate power among Roman Catholic bishops.
- But collegiality does refer to a kind of sharing of authority between Rome and all the other local churches. Each bishop represents his own local church, and the pope represents the local church of Rome which, by tradition, exercises a primacy of love over all the other local churches and has...2002, Maureen Sullivan, 101 Questions and Answers on Vatican II, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 45
- For all the criticisms of John Paul's practice of collegiality, there is no doubt that he spoke often and highly of its importance. From his very first Urbi et Orbi address, given the day after his election, where he spoke of the “special bond, that is, collegiality” which “binds together the...2008, Gerard Mannion, The Vision of John Paul II: Assessing His Thought and Influence, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 184

collegiality meaning in Indonesian and Vietnamese

collegiality in Indonesian

power and authority that is shared among peers: kolegialitas

collegiality in Vietnamese

working with colleagues in an effective and cooperative manner: tình đồng nghiệp

Examples of collegiality in a sentence

Second, most of the justices suggested that informal norms of collegiality and respect for the opinions of colleagues often resulted in deliberate efforts to find acceptable compromise.2012, Donald R. Songer, Susan Johnson, C.L. Ostberg, Matthew Wetstein, Law, Ideology, and Collegiality: Judicial Behaviour in the Supreme...
But collegiality does refer to a kind of sharing of authority between Rome and all the other local churches.2002, Maureen Sullivan, 101 Questions and Answers on Vatican II, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 45:
For all the criticisms of John Paul's practice of collegiality, there is no doubt that he spoke often and highly of its importance.2008, Gerard Mannion, The Vision of John Paul II: Assessing His Thought and Influence, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 184:

Forms of collegiality

plural	collegialities

Origin of collegiality

From collegial + -ity.

Words formed from collegiality

uncollegiality

Questions about collegiality

What does collegiality mean?: Collegiality means collegial atmosphere; working with colleagues in an effective and cooperative manner.
What is collegiality in Indonesian?: Collegiality in Indonesian is kolegialitas. See Collegiality meaning in Indonesian.
How do you use collegiality in a sentence?: Second, most of the justices suggested that informal norms of collegiality and respect for the opinions of colleagues often resulted in deliberate efforts to find acceptable compromise.
What part of speech is collegiality?: Collegiality is a noun.
What is the plural of collegiality?: The plural of collegiality is collegialities.

Words near collegiality in the dictionary

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