Coworkers/Colleagues

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I have some very nice coworkers/colleagues.Let's say you worked in a company, in a big office with a lot of other people, would you use "coworkers" or "colleagues" about the people you worked with?

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

anonymous
I have some very nice coworkers/colleagues.

Let's say you worked in a company, in a big office with a lot of other people, would you use "coworkers" or "colleagues" about the people you worked with?

I don't think I'd use either of those. I say

I've met some very nice people at work.

Official documents or announcements that come from management often use the term "colleagues" to mean employees generally, but I don't use it for people I work with.

'coworkers' seems OK to me, but I question whether you can "have" them in the way that we say, idiomatically, "I have a lot of friends". I found only one example on fraze.it of "have a coworker".

CJ

Anonymous · Answer

anonymous"coworkers"

Is familiar from US media.

anonymous"colleagues"

This is familiar in the UK.

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