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/ˈbɜː(ɹ)naʊt/ · noun
(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career..
High on the list of proposals educators said they support to combat burnout – after raising salaries and hiring more teachers — was providing additional mental health and behavioral support for students, according to the 2022 NEA survey.
Ten years of this soul-sucking job would turn any ambitious young person into a burnout.
There’s no way we can hire that guy. He’s a total burnout—he can't do the work.
Then in his late 30s, he [Neal Cassady] was already a visibly ravaged shadow of Kerouac’s heroically defiant rebel and well on his way to becoming the kind of babbling burnout you don’t want to sit next to on any bus trip, magical or not.
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Burnout means (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career..
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High on the list of proposals educators said they support to combat burnout – after raising salaries and hiring more teachers — was providing additional mental health and behavioral support for students, according to the 2022 NEA survey.
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