fellow servant

noun

1. (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fellow servant¹

First recorded in 1525–35

Example Sentences

A source tells Kay:  ‘Everyone here is sad that Badar is gone,’ says a fellow servant.

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The coachman, with his whip posed, sat talking with his fellow-servant, so that Linton saw that the carriage had no occupant.

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Don Scipio's own gentleman, these ten years—Yet, you heard him just now call me your fellow servant.

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If this had happened in Lambeth, the servant would not have been allowed to go for his fellow servant with such jubilant audacity.

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Rascal swore loudly and deeply that he would take no orders from his fellow-servant, and insisted on rushing into my apartment.

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Sarah turned to her fellow-servant, gave her the required instructions, and followed Glyddyr back into the study.

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