[
US
/ˈkɑnfɹɛɹ/
]
NOUN
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a person who is member of one's class or profession
he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
the surgeon consulted his colleagues
How To Use confrere In A Sentence
- (Subtler forms, perhaps arguable, although I remain favourable disposed to-wards him, I mean look at his confrères …) However, the bootlicker Naciri went for broke. Global Voices in English » Morocco: Bloggers React to the Banning of Magazines
- Before a 'confrere' she was certain he would not ask her dangerous questions. The French Immortals Series — Complete
- Well, to resume, what shall I tell you, young 'confrere'? The French Immortals Series — Complete
- He would speak of his young confrere Saniel: "You know the one who was appointed 'agrege'," and he would relate the advice that he, The French Immortals Series — Complete
- Some 30 years ago, when I was stationed in New Zealand, I was travelling by car with some of my confrères from Wellington to Auckland for a retreat.
- He is not a whit less a tattler and a scandal monger than the old Roman tonsor or Figaro, his confrère in Southern Europe. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- If exposure to forbidden freedoms aroused in him and his confrères unconscious rage at their own repression, what better way to ward off the devil than to redirect that rage against it?
- He dedicated himself to his confrères who were still doing hard labour in prison, and also to recruiting vocations, both male and female.
- Be sure that, when the baubles to which their Westminster confrères are addicted are handed out on Wednesday, they will sneer at those vanities.
- Does he imagine, the young 'confrere', that I am going to believe his time so fully occupied that he must make a special arrangement to give me an hour? The French Immortals Series — Complete
