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/kəˈɹɪɹɪst/ · noun
(derogatory) 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.
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.
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
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Careerist means (derogatory) A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values..
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A careerist is a square-filler, a time-server. His talents and imagination have been circumscribed to perform managerial duties.
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