Sentence examples for a working acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Native English speakers can, however, gain important intellectual and career opportunities by following Montgomery's example and acquiring at least a working acquaintance with other major world languages.

As the number of sequenced organisms expands, no one person can have a working acquaintance with every sequenced genus.

Really?" "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and Erik is pretty cool but he's more of a work acquaintance, so keep him pretty close, sometimes".

I had been in Kuwait so briefly that I had no friends in the city, yet within an hour of the Iraqi announcement, the phone in my hotel room rang three times: one call came from a Kuwaiti, one from an Egyptian, and one from a Lebanese-American, each one a work acquaintance offering his home as a haven.

Once I told a coworker who was more than just a work acquaintance.

Once I told a co-worker who was more than just a work acquaintance.

A work acquaintance introduced me to Lugo late last week both because of his connection to the region and his own visceral reaction to Pulse as a bisexual Afro-Latino.

He contacted Lerner Research programmer Chris Green an acquaintance from his past work with Ned Lerner who created a working algorithm.

An opportunity to jump-start his paltry existence arrives when an acquaintance working for a new dental health company recruits Max to drive a shipment of toothbrushes from London to Scotland.

While there, he said, he saw help-wanted signs, and an acquaintance working there told him that a cousin had been hired the day before and was to begin work the next day.

He recounted the tale of an acquaintance working in sales who recently resigned from a company that had treated him shabbily.