experienced colleague

collocation in English

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experienced
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.ənst/
us
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.ənst/
having skill or knowledge because you have done something ...
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colleague
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒl.iːɡ/
us
/ˈkɑː.liːɡ/
one of a group of people who ...
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In practice, this is likely to mean that they would undertake the sort of teaching duties that teaching assistants would undertake under the close supervision of a moreexperiencedcolleague.
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Each doctor is then assigned to a moreexperiencedcolleaguewho acts as a supervisory mentor until he or she is assessed as capable of working alone.
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Many years ago, a friend of mine who had just been appointed to the magisterial bench, being a moderate and diffident man, sought advice from a moreexperiencedcolleague.
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The network has enabled practitioners to gain research experience by working with more experienced colleagues.
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The findings illustrate how novices benefit from experienced colleagues to support their practice development.
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His eight arias clearly placed him in a higher rank than his somewhat more experienced colleagues.
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Less-experienced doctors mentioned the patient's age more frequently than more experienced colleagues (82% versus 61%, p=0.0065), but again analysis of variance revealed no statistically significant differences by patient age.
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Young actors played small parts, copied their more experienced colleagues, and eventually moved on to the more important roles.
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She does not have more experienced colleagues to advise and help her about how she should handle a matter of this kind.
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I was fortunate to have competent and experienced colleagues, who listened carefully and were present at the negotiating meetings.
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All new staff receive comprehensive training which includes a period of supervised working alongside experienced colleagues.
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They will be paid as teachers, though not qualified, and they will have advice from experienced colleagues.
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Many talented nurses and midwives want to keep on treating patients and training their less experienced colleagues.
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It must be left to him and his very experienced colleagues.
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I am trying to emulate my more experienced colleagues in this respect.
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They have been asked to do more work than some of their more experienced colleagues.
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All asylum decision makers receive continual support and mentoring from more experienced colleagues in a team working environment where the sharing and pooling of acquired expertise is actively encouraged.
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Misra sadly demonstrates, some groups—particularly junior doctors—may, through inexperience or lack of training, make errors that other, more experienced colleagues would usually avoid.
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They receive continual support and mentoring from more experienced colleagues in a team working environment where the sharing and pooling of acquired expertise is actively encouraged.
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In organizations that can not afford dedicated editors, experienced writers typically peer-edit text produced by their less experienced colleagues.
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