Workfellows

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Individuals who share a workplace and undertake their jobs collaboratively or in parallel
2. Co-workers who contribute to common projects and objectives within an organization or profession
3. Colleagues engaged in mutual tasks, often sharing responsibilities and social interactions in a professional environment

Etymology: "Workfellows" is simply the plural of "workfellow," a compound formed from "work" and "fellow." "Fellow" has long meant a companion or associate, a sense it has carried since Old English, when a "fellow" was someone who shared a common stock or partnership. Joining it to "work" produced a plain, transparent term for people engaged in the same labour, so the compound needs little decoding: a workfellow is a fellow in the work. The word is an inflected form, so its history is that of "workfellow" itself, and the plural simply adds the usual "-s" to refer to more than one such colleague.

Synonyms: colleagues, coworkers