[f. CO- 3 b + WORKER.] One who works together with another; a co-operator.

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a. 1643.  J. Shute, Judgem. & Mercy (1645), 105. We are co-workers with God.

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a. 1653.  Gouge, Comm. Heb. iv. 8 (1655), 427. God doth to honour mans nature in making men coworkers with himself.

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1863.  Holland, Lett. Joneses, xxi. 308. Work of this character … establishes sympathy between the co-workers.

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