Colleague

1. v.t & i. To unite or associate with another or with others.
2. n. A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.