work friends
Cubicle social circle
Work friends are people you're friendly with primarily because you share a workplace.
The relationship exists within professional boundaries—you eat lunch together, chat between meetings, maybe grab drinks after work—but the friendship often fades when one of you leaves the job.
We were close work friends, but I haven't talked to her since she moved to Seattle.
The term implicitly distinguishes these relationships from deeper friendships that exist independent of circumstance.
- coworkersPeople at same job
- officeProfessional work location
- desk neighborNearby office occupant
- lunchMidday meal
- lunch buddyFriend for midday meals
watercooler · happy hour · cubicle · gossip · slack · coffee break · water cooler chat · team · team building · bonding · commute · meetings · inside jokes · venting · nine to five · collaboration · desk · break room
- social contactscontacts, buddies, connections, acquaintances, followers
- social tiespals, buddies, mates, companions, chums
- social connectionsneighbors, peers, coworkers, godparents, trusted adults
- friend groupssquad, crew, posse, clique, gang
work friendschildhood friends
Companions from youth
lifelong friends · old friends · college friends · family friends · social circle
work friendsbest friends
Closest mutual companions
soul mates · bosom buddies · chosen family · kindred spirits · BFFs
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