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US
/kɝˈɪɹɪst/
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[ UK /kəɹˈiəɹɪst/ ]
[ UK /kəɹˈiəɹɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity
How To Use careerist In A Sentence
- After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
- One of the realities of these worlds is the strategic exploitation of these essentialist identities as a means of personal leverage, power, and careerist gain.
- Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
- It seems to me in your left wing bubble you are determines to tar anyone who won't support McDonnell as "careerist" or "right of centre" - even if neither of those points are true. Blair Says "Deport Beckett Now"
- Here we have self-obsessed careerist Lindsey, falling in love with the irresistibly sweet school teacher Ben (Fallon).
- We are the only political party with a mass link to the working class through the trade union movement, and like the unions, we have our share of careerists and reactionaries.
- Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
- He was a mercenary, a criminal, an international careerist. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
- Some might stay on indefinitely, happy with a job suited to their talents, (like re-up'ing a 'careerist' in the public-employee military service). An idea to save newspapers (Jack Bog's Blog)
- It is manifestly not what public servants and military careerists are used to.