Definition

1. Noun:
   • A colleague of equal rank and position: A person who holds the same specific job title, office, or appointment as another person within a similar or different organization. It emphasizes a parallel, equivalent professional status.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Hai giám đốc từ hai công ty khác nhau là đồng nhiệm của nhau. (The two directors from two different companies are each other's colleagues of equal rank.)
  • Chúng tôi là đồng nhiệm tại cùng một khoa trong trường đại học. (We are colleagues holding the same position in the same university department.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is formal and is often used in professional, academic, or bureaucratic contexts to denote equivalence in official capacity.
• It can be used as a noun modifier in phrases like (colleague-holders of the same post), though this is somewhat redundant.

Variants and Related Words

• Đồng nghiệp (n): A general term for "colleague." While can work in the same place, specifically stresses identical job titles or appointments, regardless of workplace.
• Chức vụ tương đương (n phrase): Equivalent position.

Synonyms

• Counterpart: A person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another.
• Peer (in a specific office): A person of the same status in terms of a particular appointed role.
• Colleague of equal standing: A colleague who holds an identical rank.

Related Idioms

• : Of equal rank and position. This phrase reinforces the concept of parity.
  • Họ làm việc trong các cơ quan khác nhau nhưng ngang hàng đồng nhiệm. (They work in different agencies but are of equal rank and position.)