careerist
noun/kəˈɹɪɹɪst/
Etymology
Definitions
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.
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.
Of or pertaining to such a person or way of life
The neighborhood
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Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA