noun

• A partner or associate.

  ‘It is with contemporaries and consociates that most of my social traffic occurs.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The support of consociates, who share a common work history, has enabled them "to place their lives in perspective.’
  • ‘This face-to-face relationship between consociates need not be especially intimate.’
  • ‘Consociates are mutually involved in one another's biography.’
  • ‘This case, which was well watched by the hospital obstetric clerk, and his consociate, Mr. Davy, was a very interesting one.’

  Synonyms

  partner, colleague, co-worker, fellow worker, workmate, compatriot, comrade, friend, ally, supporter, wingman, confederate, connection, contact, acquaintance