the.com/colleague
A stranger you'd never choose, bonded by salary and the same broken printer.
means A person you work with, typically in the same profession or organization and at a roughly similar level.
from From Latin collega, 'one chosen alongside another' — built from com- ('together') and legare ('to choose or appoint'). In Roman public life, colleagues were officials who shared the same office, jointly elected to govern as a pair or board. The sense of shared duty has survived intact; the elections, sadly, have not.
- latin roots
- From colligere, meaning chosen together
- forced intimacy
- You see them more than your spouse
- survival skill
- Knowing whose lunch never to touch
- silent language
- Eye contact across a pointless meeting
sherlock holmes and watson — fictional detectives who worked together at 221b baker street
jobs and wozniak — apple co-founders who built computers together in 1976
lennon and mccartney — beatles songwriting partnership that created their most famous songs