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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
workaholic
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a workaholic (=someone who never stops working)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Selling is a career that seems to attract workaholics.
▪ Steve's doing a sixty-hour week at the moment - I never realized he could be such a workaholic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A self-confessed control freak and workaholic, no-one is allowed in his control room.
▪ By 2015, workaholics were considered as socially handicapped as the chronically unemployed.
▪ He had one overriding ambition-to act-and confessed to being a workaholic.
▪ So when a blizzard or a budget standoff sends them home, some federal workaholics resort to extreme measures.
▪ There the young workaholic did everything from sharpening his own saw to delivering the product in a two-wheeled handcart.
▪ They can easily become workaholics, name droppers, gossips and braggarts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
workaholic

1968, coined from work (n.) with second element abstracted absurdly from alcoholic. This sets up the old Rodney Dangerfield joke: "My old man was a workaholic: every time he thought about work, he got drunk."

Wiktionary
workaholic

a. In the nature or manner of a workaholic. n. A person who feels compelled to work excessively.

WordNet
workaholic

n. person with a compulsive need to work

Wikipedia
Workaholic

A workaholic is a person who works compulsively. While the term generally implies that the person enjoys their work, it can also imply that they simply feel compelled to do it. There is no generally accepted medical definition of such a condition, although some forms of stress, impulse control disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder can be work-related.

Workaholic (song)

"Workaholic" is a song recorded by Dutch Eurodance band 2 Unlimited.

Workaholic (disambiguation)

A Workaholic is someone suffering a from a psychological disorder

Workaholic, or variants, may also refer to:

  • Workaholics, a 2011 television comedy series on Comedy Central
  • Workaholic (song), song by 2 Unlimited

Usage examples of "workaholic".

Others refuse to give up procrastinating and refuse to strive for success for fear of becoming a workaholic.

Others refuse to give up procrastinating and refuse to strive for success for fear of becoming a workaholic.

They had always done paperwork at dinner, one of those odd habits couples acquire that seem, in retrospect, defining: workaholics in love.

There's the workaholic businesswoman Ten-Four, the party girl Elvira, the Barbie-like Miss Wonderful, the catatonically calm Grace, the sophisticated Catherine, the violently obscene Sewer Mouth.

Robinson (1998) describes the unhealthy workaholic personality but in this book mostly discusses dealing with it in Cognitive therapy.

Seven of the toughest little workaholics in the dwarf game, and I'm not just whistling Dixie.