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fellow servant
noun
- (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fellow servant1
Example Sentences
It also inspired contemporaries like Robert Sargent “Sarge” Shriver, a fellow servant leader and civil rights crusader, and the namesake of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law and the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute.
His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’
There we find Daisy back in the kitchen as of old, engaged to her fellow servant Andy.
In a 1671 Moliere play, the character Scapin tells a fellow servant to “Camp about on one leg. Put your hand on your hip. Wear a furious look. Strut about like a drama king.”
A Glasgow newspaper, Reformers’ Gazette, recorded in 1832 that a man was hung for throwing vitriol on a fellow servant while he slept and soon a term was was coined for acid attacks, vitriolage.
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