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Definition: Co-worker |
Co-workerNoun1. An associate you work with. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "co-worker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: Co-workerSynonyms: colleague (n), fellow worker (n), workfellow (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Co-worker |
| Specialty definitions using "co-worker": ANTENNA INSTALLER, SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ♦ CANOPY STRINGER, cow orker ♦ SLOT-TAG INSERTER. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "020517_035" by | Mwolfe | Commentary: "Co-worker james pimping in new york city." | "Telephone Order" by Carl Dwyer Commentary: "One of our sales team on the telephone, with a co-worker in the background." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Co-worker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Co-worker" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "co-worker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 同事 (colleague). (various references) | |
Czech | spolupracovník (associate, coadjutor, collaborator, contributor, cooperator), kolega (brother, colleague, mate, pal). (various references) | |
Finnish | työtoveri (collaborator, fellow worker). (various references) | |
German | mitarbeiter (adjunct, assistant, assistants, associate, collaborator, colleague, contributor, cooperator, employee, manpower, monitor), kollegin (sister), kollege (adjunct, associate, brother, colleague, fellow, workmate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | munkatárs (associate, cobber, collaborator, colleague, contributor, fellow worker, joint labourer, team mate, yoke fellow, yoke-fellow, yokemate). (various references) | |
Maya | eet-meyah. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | o-workercay.(various references) | |
Romanian | colaborator (assistant, collaborator, contributor, cooperator, co-operator, helpmate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | saradnik (collaborator, contributor, fellow worker). (various references) | |
Swedish | samarbetspartner. (various references) | |
Turkish | meslektaş (colleague, confrere, counterpart, yoke mate), iş arkadaşı (collaborator, colleague, cooperator, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coworker. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-o-o-r-r-w" | |
-2 letters: cooker, corker, crower, recook, recork, rework, rocker, worker. | |
-3 letters: cooer, corer, cower, crook, crore, ocker, rower, wooer, wreck. | |
-4 letters: cero, coke, cook, core, cork, crew, crow, kore, reck, rock, rook, woke, wore, work. | |
-5 letters: coo, cor, cow, err, kor, oke, orc, ore, owe, rec, roc, roe, row, woe, wok, woo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-o-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: coworkers, workforce. | |
+2 letters: dockworker, workforces. | |
+3 letters: dockworkers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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