{
    "term": "colleague",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person that you work with, especially in a profession or a business",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**work/senior/male colleagues**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were **friends and colleagues** for more than 20 years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "some of his former colleagues on the council"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scientists are now working with colleagues in Arizona to develop a working model."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is described by party colleagues as a workaholic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Russinova and her colleagues found that 74% of participants had held the same job for 24 months or longer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've talked to colleagues at other universities about it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "colleagues in the IT department"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a colleague of mine from the office"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["close", "trusted", "junior"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒliːɡ/",
                "audio": "co/colleague/colleague__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːliːɡ/",
                "audio": "co/colleague/colleague__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: from French collègue, from Latin collega ‘partner in office’, from col- ‘together with’ + legare ‘depute’."
}