coworker
Americannoun
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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For example, even though it already has its own Agent Mode, Microsoft decided to co-develop Copilot Coworker with Anthropic and embed it into Copilot at no extra cost to keep those customer relationships.
From Barron's
I scanned the room to make sure it wasn’t a prank, which had actually happened to a coworker, but the coast seemed clear.
From Los Angeles Times
I glance toward the front seat to make sure Mom didn’t hear that, but she’s completely absorbed in Aunt Jen’s story about her annoying coworker.
From Literature
“Can’t you just change the angle?” his coworker shouted back.
From Literature
When a coworker asks this scrawny geek how he bagged a hunk like Ray, Colin brags that he has “an aptitude for devotion,” which includes wearing a padlock around his neck and shaving his Byronesque curls so that he looks like a zealot — which in a way, he is.
From Los Angeles Times
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