co-worker
Britishnoun
Explanation
A co-worker is someone you work with. Your ice cream shop co-worker might scoop the ice cream while you're on milkshake duty. When you work with someone, that person is your co-worker. The word implies that you work side-by-side — you wouldn't usually refer to your boss as your co-worker. If you work in an office, your co-workers probably have cubicles and computers that are similar to yours, and if you work on a farm your co-workers are right there beside you weeding the beets or watering the tomatoes. The prefix co in co-worker means "together" or "mutually."
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She waited for around 40 minutes in a shopping centre while the interviewer's co-worker called them "two or three times".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
This gave MS NOW’s Ali Velshi an advantage at the network’s Big Board now that his former co-worker Steve Kornacki has moved over to NBC.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Some, like EY, have designed simulations to let junior staff practice asking clients for information or confronting a co-worker about a missed deadline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Anytime you feel as if a co-worker is spinning a false narrative, it helps to have evidence that shows what they are claiming is, at the very least, one-sided.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
It is not simply the denial of the right to vote but the shame one feels when a co-worker innocently asks, “Who you gonna vote for on Tuesday?”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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