careerist
careerist
Definition
ca·reer·ist (-ist)
noun
a person interested chiefly in succeeding in a career, to the neglect of other things
careerist
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- political: They manipulate them and seek out the political careerists who have no principles except getting paid as much as possible.
- young: The young careerists would find their reasons for not pushing on certain issues.
- bourgeois: To be a bourgeois careerist, that is to be committed to a one-sided set of values.
- parliamentary: Its denunciations of the revolutionary left are as hard as its denunciations of parliamentary careerists.
- right: Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labor sycophants.
Modifies a noun
- politician: Labor cabinet posts are being filled by careerist politicians who have never had a life outside the political arena.
- element: The Communist Party must ruthlessly stigmatize those careerist elements that come around the Communist Parties in order to get into parliament.
- magistrate: That rancor was readily channeled by a clique of priests, hacks and careerist magistrates.
- reason: The problem is that a lot of these people are either his personal acolytes or are supporting him purely for careerist reasons.
Browse dictionary entries near careerist
- careerism
- career woman
- career
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- carefulness
- caregiver
- careless
- carelessly
- carelessness
- caress
- caresser
