Sentence examples for 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.

Anne Bruce grew uncomfortable about what she had posted when a number of work acquaintances befriended her on Facebook.

So he avoids discussing the election with work acquaintances, the only people he knows in that camp.

I had work acquaintances but no real friends, and I was living in a borrowed flat with no phone.

As an intensely social species, humans necessarily put great importance on establishing beneficial relationships with others, whether it be close friends, romantic partners, or work acquaintances.