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Definition of careerist in English: careeristadjectivekəˈrɪərɪstkəˈrɪrəst derogatory Concerned mainly with advancement in one's profession. Example sentencesExamples - Today, vocationally oriented students and careerist colleagues make it a chore.
- As Nick, Louis Lovett finds the perfect balance between feigned and real innocence, and between decency and the first signs of careerist deviousness.
- Students today are more careerist than ever before.
- The most intense resistance comes from women who, despite the promises of careerist feminism, remain reluctant to surrender so many of their personal urges to the promises of ecstatic work.
- As a matter of course, one did not turn down assignments: one responded without careerist calculation to the needs of the service.
- But, anyone who thinks that careerist social climbers who work for giant media corporations run by billionaires aren't liberals to their bones just doesn't know what he's talking about.
- Look at the changes in his party registrations, which even his mother thought were careerist and job-centered.
- It'll be interesting to see what it's like with fun being at the top of the list rather than some kind of careerist lunacy, you know?
- What the film does do well is tell the story of this one man and capture the wider portrait of a profession where careerist opportunism has begun to count for more than old-fashioned ethics.
- Politicians always have hidden careerist agendas, and are versed in the language of deceit.
- My first thoughts were to advise all my single friends to stay away from careerist husbands.
- These are men and women who work not off of political ideals or even insight, but rather are driven by careerist ambition and opportunist fear.
- She has work she loves, as a community physician - not, you'll note, as a cold-hearted status-obsessed selfish careerist user, as professional women are always accused of being.
- The forceful, careerist Hepburn keeps Tracy off-balance, speaking multiple languages, shielding political refugees, and adopting a Greek orphan.
- I didn't ask them why, but either morality or potential careerist reasons were likely.
- There are many factors involved in the line-up of forces in the threatened split, including, no doubt, personal grudges and careerist ambitions.
- How come they can't be able, well adjusted, successful, careerist Special Agents?
- Here we have self-obsessed careerist Lindsey, falling in love with the irresistibly sweet school teacher Ben (Fallon).
- Amongst our current crop of careerist politicians, we simply don't have enough firebrands with a passionate commitment to pursuing genuine social change.
- 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.
noun kəˈrɪərɪst derogatory A careerist person. none of the women considered themselves high-powered careerists Example sentencesExamples - Not only are most journalists covering the presidential campaigns anxious, grudging careerists, one among their number is also a petty thief!
- When a bunch of self-seeking careerists find themselves in positions of influence, is it any wonder things turn out to be such a mess?
- By throwing out the careerists and dead wood they can begin the job of turning the union into an organisation that's strong enough to defend the interests of all its members against those of the employer.
- He is cynical about careerists and operators who flourish under patronage.
- Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labour sycophants.
- We have machine politicians, patronage politicians, narrow ideologues and careerists.
- Our celebrity driven news is presented by people who gave up being journalists and instead became careerists.
- Cynical careerists will work out early on that joining an editorial team embarked on a decades-long ‘service-to-scholarship’ enterprise is a dumb move.
- It is manifestly not what public servants and military careerists are used to.
- The court party retorted that the country party members were either secret Jacobites or self-seeking careerists, making trouble for their own ends.
- Jack's colleagues are a rum lot of shifty-eyed careerists, who'd think nothing of switching off your oxygen supply if they felt it would help them gain access to the next network level.
- 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.
- The people I had based these characters on were clean-cut careerists rather than gangsters.
- They were extremely useful representatives of the people, and in no way out-and-out careerists.
- The loss of power will make the careerists and parasites run away from the party after they see that nothing more will be served on the party's table, and will head to the richer masses of the new time.
- Polls tell us that we think they are out-of-touch, careerists, lying party hacks.
- However, there are also a number of shameless careerists who inhabit New Labour, often former Tories.
- The younger soldiers who grew up in relatively peaceful times interpret the mentality of the careerists as one of making up for lost opportunities.
- I expect the people in Congress to be careerists, because they are.
Definition of careerist in US English: careeristadjectivekəˈrɪrəstkəˈrirəst A person whose main concern is for professional advancement, especially one willing to achieve this by any means. as modifier a careerist politician Example sentencesExamples - How come they can't be able, well adjusted, successful, careerist Special Agents?
- Look at the changes in his party registrations, which even his mother thought were careerist and job-centered.
- These are men and women who work not off of political ideals or even insight, but rather are driven by careerist ambition and opportunist fear.
- Students today are more careerist than ever before.
- As Nick, Louis Lovett finds the perfect balance between feigned and real innocence, and between decency and the first signs of careerist deviousness.
- The forceful, careerist Hepburn keeps Tracy off-balance, speaking multiple languages, shielding political refugees, and adopting a Greek orphan.
- She has work she loves, as a community physician - not, you'll note, as a cold-hearted status-obsessed selfish careerist user, as professional women are always accused of being.
- The most intense resistance comes from women who, despite the promises of careerist feminism, remain reluctant to surrender so many of their personal urges to the promises of ecstatic work.
- What the film does do well is tell the story of this one man and capture the wider portrait of a profession where careerist opportunism has begun to count for more than old-fashioned ethics.
- But, anyone who thinks that careerist social climbers who work for giant media corporations run by billionaires aren't liberals to their bones just doesn't know what he's talking about.
- Amongst our current crop of careerist politicians, we simply don't have enough firebrands with a passionate commitment to pursuing genuine social change.
- There are many factors involved in the line-up of forces in the threatened split, including, no doubt, personal grudges and careerist ambitions.
- My first thoughts were to advise all my single friends to stay away from careerist husbands.
- Here we have self-obsessed careerist Lindsey, falling in love with the irresistibly sweet school teacher Ben (Fallon).
- Today, vocationally oriented students and careerist colleagues make it a chore.
- I didn't ask them why, but either morality or potential careerist reasons were likely.
- 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.
- Politicians always have hidden careerist agendas, and are versed in the language of deceit.
- It'll be interesting to see what it's like with fun being at the top of the list rather than some kind of careerist lunacy, you know?
- As a matter of course, one did not turn down assignments: one responded without careerist calculation to the needs of the service.
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