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

It also inspired contemporaries like Robert Sargent “Sarge” Shriver, a fellow servant leader and civil rights crusader, and the namesake of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law and the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute.

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His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’

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There we find Daisy back in the kitchen as of old, engaged to her fellow servant Andy.

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In a 1671 Moliere play, the character Scapin tells a fellow servant to “Camp about on one leg. Put your hand on your hip. Wear a furious look. Strut about like a drama king.”

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A Glasgow newspaper, Reformers’ Gazette, recorded in 1832 that a man was hung for throwing vitriol on a fellow servant while he slept and soon a term was was coined for acid attacks, vitriolage.

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