[f. COLLEAGUE sb. + -SHIP.] The position or relation of a colleague; companionship in office, etc.
a. 1631. Donne, Ess. Diuinity (1651), 90. God … hath not assumed Nature into a Colleagueship with himself.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., Wks. 1738, I. 232. A Collegueship in the same family, or in the same journey.
1703. J. Savage, Lett. Antients, clxii. 377. I perform’d all the Offices that were due to our Coliegueship.
1845. Fonblanque, in Life & Labours (1874), 478. A sweeter correspondence than that of colleagueship.
1889. Ld. Rosebery, in Daily News, 2 Oct., 6/1. In our short colleagueship together—if I may so coin a word.
