collegue

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

   Synonyms:

   coworker, workmate, confrère

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