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colleague

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
ˈkɒliːɡ

Definitions

  1. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
  2. Colleague, coworker.
  3. A fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate. See Synonyms at partner.
  4. an associate; fellow worker or fellow member of a profession.
  5. a person with whom one is associated in a profession or occupation. He gets on well with his colleagues. medeamptenaar زَميل في العَمَل колега colega kolega der/die Kollege/Kollegin kollega συνάδελφοςcolega töökaaslane همکار kollega collègueעמית सहकर्मी kolega kolléga rekan samstarfsmaður collega 同僚 동료 kolega kolēģis rakan sekerja collegakollega, medarbeiderkolega, współpracownik همکار colega coleg коллега kolega, -yňa kolega kolega kollega เพื่อนร่วมงาน meslektaş 同事 співробітник, колега رفیق...
  6. colega; compañero-a.
  7. a fellow worker or member of a staff, department, profession, etc
  8. One that is very similar to another in rank or position:coequal, compeer, equal, equivalent, fellow, peer.
  9. One who is united in a relationship with another:affiliate, ally, associate, cohort, confederate, copartner, fellow, partner.
  10. n → Kollege m, → Kollegin f; my colleagues at work → meine Arbeitskollegen
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Equivalents

48 more languages
Българскиколегаколежка
বাংলাসহকর্মী
Ελληνικάσυνάδελφος
Eestikolleeg
Bahasa Indonesiakolegamitrapendampingrekan
Italianocollega
Қазақ тіліәріптес
Кыргызчакесиптеш
Latinacollega
Lietuviųkolega
Latviešubiedrebiedrs
Македонскиколегаколешка
Portuguêscolega
Românăcolegcolegă
Slovenčinakolegakolegyňa
తెలుగుసహోద్యోగి
Тоҷикӣҳамкор
اردوساتھی

Examples

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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