colleague

/หˆkษ‘liษก/

IPA: /K AA1 L IY0 G/

noun
  1. 1

    A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.

verb
  1. 1

    To unite or associate with another or with others.

    โ€œYoung Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)โ€

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