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careerist
Alternative clues for the word careerist
Word definitions for careerist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1917, from career (n.) + -ist .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to such a person or way of life n. A person who pursues the advancement of his career at the expense of other values.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a professional who follows a career
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
careerist \careerist\ n. A professional who follows a career.
Usage examples of careerist.
The trade unions and the SPD had become rich and powerful, and had begun to harbour careerists and place-seekers at every level.
For the developing careerists Marxist phrases were used at May Day processions, on workers' holidays and other such occasions, whereas in day to day work they adapted themselves to bourgeois society.
I was wondering when you'd call, being the ambitious, careerist reporter that you so evidently are.
They were forced to play careerist games over shrinking slices of the grantsmanship pie, rather than leaving money problems to the beancounters and getting mano-a-mano with the Big Questions.
It was always a buyers' market, but then economics was not a strong point with these junior careerists.
There'd be drones out there, careerist officers just serving their time and filling out their forms, as if that were what it meant to be a field-grade officer.
To most people, especially to Washington careerists, the idea of being a middle or low-ranking diplomat in a place like Sierra Leone would represent the ultimate in underachievement, unless it came very early in one’s career.