coworker
Americannoun
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coworkers
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Usage
What does coworker mean? A coworker is your fellow employee, especially a person you work closely with. The words worker and coworker both refer to paid employees. Even if you work closely with your fellow students or volunteers, you would not call them your coworkers. Example: I spent most of my first day meeting my coworkers who work in the same department.
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At a news conference last month, Sheriff Robert Luna described Clinkunbroomer as a hero, model son, amazing coworker and the exact type of person he wanted wearing the department’s uniform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
At the urging of a coworker, he finally visited an urgent care facility and, upon arrival, was told that he immediately needed to go to an emergency room.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Unfortunately, one of the people who paid the ultimate price in this feud is Anna’s coworker, whom she couldn’t leave out of her personal problems.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
I asked my coworker if I could borrow a book I’d seen on her desk, and she happily lent it to me.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
A male coworker was harassing her, and she later told close friends that she had to fend off Fabyan, too.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
“She dedicated herself to caring for others and made a lasting impression on her coworkers, students, patients, and so many others throughout our organization,” the department said in a statement Friday evening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Alvarez's coworkers reassure her that annual visitors to the resort town will be back next year.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
He said he has spoken to many of his coworkers who feel like "our backs are against the wall" and feel "scared to turn their heating on".
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Is a manager causing you stress, or do you simply not get along with your coworkers?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
If I don’t know how my coworkers survive on their wages or what they make of our hellish condition, I do know about their back pains and cramps and arthritic attacks.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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