coworker

See also: co-worker and cow-orker

English

Alternative forms

• co-worker

Etymology

From co- +‎ worker.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊˈwɝ.kɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊˈwɜː.kə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: co‧wor‧ker

Noun

coworker (plural coworkers)

1. Somebody with whom one works.

   Synonyms: colleague, workmate; see also Thesaurus:associate

   He heard from a coworker that the company planned to merge those departments.

   • 1997, Albert Gore, Scott Adams, Businesslike Government:

     […] according to her coworker and carpooler, Bill Parker: […]

   • 2015 August 4, Diana Fiorentini et al., “Polyphenols as Modulators of Aquaporin Family in Health and Disease”, in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity‎^[1], volume 2015, →DOI:

     Since spinal cord injury is associated with edema and changes in AQP4 expression, Ge and coworkers investigated the potential antiedema effect of epigallocatechin gallate and its underlying mechanism on a rat model of acute spinal cord injury.

2. (Internet slang, derogatory, attributive) A person in the lowest common denominator, especially regarding popular culture.

   Synonym: normie

   This is the most coworker movie I've ever seen.

Derived terms

• coworker music

Translations

somebody with whom one works

• Arabic: زَمِيل m (zamīl), زَمِيلَة f (zamīla)
• Armenian: գործընկեր (hy) (gorcənker), պաշտոնակից (hy) (paštonakicʻ)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: সহকর্মী (bn) (śohokormi)
• Bulgarian: коле́га (bg) m (koléga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同事 (zh) (tóngshì), 同僚 (zh) (tóngliáo)

• Danish: kollega (da) c, arbejdskollega c, arbejdskammerat c
• Dutch: collega (nl), medewerker (nl), medewerkster (nl)
• Esperanto: kunlaboranto, kolego (eo)
• Finnish: työtoveri (fi), työkaveri (fi)
• French: collègue (fr) m or f, confrère (fr) m
• Georgian: კოლეგა (ḳolega), თანამშრომელი (tanamšromeli)
• German: Kollege (de) m, Kollegin (de) f
• Greek: συνεργάτης (el) m (synergátis)

  Ancient: συνεργός m or f (sunergós)

• Hebrew: עמית (he) ('amyt), עמיתה f ('amita)
• Hindi: सहकर्मी m (sahkarmī)
• Hungarian: munkatárs (hu), kolléga (hu)
• Icelandic: vinnufélagi (is) m
• Italian: collega (it) m or f
• Japanese: 同僚 (ja) (どうりょう, dōryō)
• Kazakh: еңбектес (eñbektes), жұмыстас (jūmystas)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 동료(同僚) (ko) (dongnyo), 동업자 (ko) (dong'eopja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hevpîşe (ku) n, hevkar (ku)

• Macedonian: коле́га m (koléga), коле́шка f (koléška)
• Manx: co-labree m
• Maori: hoa mahi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: सहकर्मी (sahakarmī)
• Old English: efnwyrhta m
• Persian: همکار (fa) (hamkâr)
• Polish: współpracownik (pl), kolega z pracy m, koleżanka z pracy f
• Portuguese: colega (pt) m or f, colega de trabalho m or f, colega de serviço m or f
• Romanian: coleg (ro) m, colegă (ro) f
• Russian: колле́га (ru) m or f (kolléga), сослужи́вец (ru) m (soslužívec), сотру́дник (ru) m (sotrúdnik), сотру́дница (ru) f (sotrúdnica)
• Spanish: colega (es) m or f, compañero (de trabajo) m, compañera (de trabajo) f
• Swedish: medarbetare (sv) c, arbetskamrat (sv) c, kollega (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamanggagawa
• Thai: เพื่อนร่วมงาน (pêuan rûam ngaan)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: iş arkadaşı, koldaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: співробі́тник m (spivrobítnyk), співробі́тниця f (spivrobítnycja)
• Vietnamese: đồng nghiệp

Anagrams

• Rockower