careerist
Noun
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Noun
careerist (plural careerists)
- (pejorative) A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values.
- 1980, Alfred Kern, “Waiting for Euripides”, reprinted in Malham M. Wakin (editor), Military Ethics, DIANE Publishing (1994), ISBN 9780788113116, page 121 ↗:
- A careerist is a square-filler, a time-server. His talents and imagination have been circumscribed to perform managerial duties.
- 1997, Anita Blair, quoted in U.S. Society & Values, June 1997: The Changing Roles of Women in the United States, DIANE Publishing, ISBN 9781428967496, page 27 ↗:
- You’ve got a lot of elite careerist women in the officer corps who have a certain set of desires usually related to their career.
- 1980, Alfred Kern, “Waiting for Euripides”, reprinted in Malham M. Wakin (editor), Military Ethics, DIANE Publishing (1994), ISBN 9780788113116, page 121 ↗:
- A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than temporarily.
- French: carriériste
- German: Karrierist, Karrieristin
- Russian: карьери́ст
careerist
- Of or pertaining to such a person or way of life
- French: carriériste
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