careerist

noun
/kəˈɹɪɹɪst/

Etymology

From career + -ist.

  1. derived from carriere
  2. derived from *ḱr̥sós
  3. derived from carrus
  4. derived from carrāria
  5. derived from carreira
  6. derived from carriera
  7. derived from carrière
  8. suffixed as careerist — “career + ist

Definitions

  1. A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values.

    • A careerist is a square-filler, a time-server. His talents and imagination have been circumscribed to perform managerial duties.
    • Liu Hsin's famous jibe seems to have been directed not against Yang Hsiung but against the intellectual limitations of contemporary careerists. […] Yang's writings and personal character did not appeal to the careerists of his time
    • 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.
  2. A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than…

    A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than temporarily.

  3. Of or pertaining to such a person or way of life

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