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empleomania|ˌɛmplɪəˈmeɪnɪə| [Sp., f. empleo employment + mania.] A mania for holding public office.
1878J. R. Lowell in Century Mag. (1898) Nov. 144/1 The empleomania, which is the dry-rot of Spain. 1920Glasgow Herald 23 Oct. 12 The evil which has sapped the vigour of so many nations—‘empleomania’—has made its insidious way into British administrative departments. 1922Ibid. 4 Jan. 4 This creed, adoption of which begets the insanity of empleomania..has had a stranglehold upon the whole Ibero-American Continent. |