careerist
/kəˈrɪərɪst
/derogatory
adjective
Concerned mainly with advancement in one’s profession: a careerist politician...
- 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.
- Amongst our current crop of careerist politicians, we simply don't have enough firebrands with a passionate commitment to pursuing genuine social change.
- Politicians always have hidden careerist agendas, and are versed in the language of deceit.
noun
A careerist person: none of the women considered themselves high-powered careerists...
- It is manifestly not what public servants and military careerists are used to.
- He is cynical about careerists and operators who flourish under patronage.
- The court party retorted that the country party members were either secret Jacobites or self-seeking careerists, making trouble for their own ends.
Derivatives
careerism
/ noun ...- In other words, the fires of feminism may have burned down to the ashes of careerism.
- We were a tight group, despite the anxious careerism.
- Still, some soldiers criticize the preponderance of awards for officers because it encourages politicking and smacks of careerism.
Rhymes
- quarter cloth
- quarter column
- quarter-crack
- quarter cut
- quarter day
- quarterdeck
- quarterdecker
- quarter distance
- quarter-elliptic
- quarter-elliptical
- quarterer
- quarter evil
- quarter face
- quarter fee
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quarter-gallery
- quarter-galley
- quarter girth
- quarter girth measure
- quarter grain
- quarter ground
- quarter guard
- quarter-gunner
- quarter heel