a person who has a steady job; specif., a government employee
jobholder in American English
(ˈdʒɑbˌhouldər)
noun
1.
a person who has a regular or steady job
2.
a government employee
Word origin
[1900–05, Amer.; job1 + holder]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cathode-ray tube, elder statesman, hydroplane, internship, throwaway
Examples of 'jobholder' in a sentence
jobholder
Other predictors included being a formal jobholder and holding a higher level education.
Idrissa Beogo, Chieh-Yu Liu, Yiing-Jenq Chou, Chuan-Yu Chen, Nicole Huang 2014, 'Health-care-seeking patterns in the emerging private sector in Burkina Faso: a population-basedstudy of urban adult residents in Ouagadougou.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4026243?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)