Different between "coworker" and "professional colleague"

[activemind]

Hello,
what is different between "coworker" and "professional colleague"?

 

[Tdol]

Hello,
what is different between "coworker" and "professional colleague"?

I wouldn't use co-worker for people in higher positions. I'd use it for lower level jobs, voluntary and temporary ones. IMO, you can use colleague for anybody.;-)

 

[activemind]

I wouldn't use co-worker for people in higher positions. I'd use it for lower level jobs, voluntary and temporary ones. IMO, you can use colleague for anybody.;-)

you mean colleague is public, but co-worker is just for low level jobs.

 

[Tdol]

What do you mean by 'public'?
I gave three categories for co-worker, and they don't all have to be low level. However, in the boardroom of a multinational, the CEO is very unlikely to call the CFO his or her co-worker- that's what I meant.

 

[activemind]

What do you mean by 'public'?
I gave three categories for co-worker, and they don't all have to be low level. However, in the boardroom of a multinational, the CEO is very unlikely to call the CFO his or her co-worker- that's what I meant.

if me and you do a job together, can you call me co-worker?
thank you

 

[Tdol]

Why not?

 

[activemind]

Why not?

, and if we do somthing professional, colleague is better than co-worker?

 

[Tdol]

I'd always use the term 'colleague' for anyone I worked with, whether they taught alongside me or cleaned the loos, but that's a personal view. However, among professionals, I think terms other than colleague would sound strange. ;-)

 

[activemind]

I'd always use the term 'colleague' for anyone I worked with, whether they taught alongside me or cleaned the loos, but that's a personal view. However, among professionals, I think terms other than colleague would sound strange. ;-)

thank you very much for your useful help ;-)

 

[Tdol]

You're welcome :fadein:

 

[alanbarg]

coworker means an ordinary person with a lower job.while professional colleague is of ahigher job. :-D :up: