How do you pronounce “colleague”?

Job interviews · B1 · noun

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/ˈkɑliɡ/

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“colleague” is pronounced COL-league: 2 syllables, with the stress on “col”.

Noun: A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
Verb: To unite or associate with another or with others.“Young Fortinbras, Holding a weak supposal of our worth... Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,...hath not failed to pester us with message Importing the surrender of those lands Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)”

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