workaholic
/wəːkəˈhɒlɪk
/noun informal
A person who compulsively works excessively hard and long hours.Until he met Francesca he was a workaholic who enjoyed playing hard....
- He's a workaholic, and hard work is one of the key things in management.
- A compulsive workaholic and an absentee publisher, he has tried a number of different tactics to revive the papers.
Derivatives
workaholism
- I think I was spiralling into obsessive workaholism which is not healthy.
- Perhaps I should not admit such things now that one of my bosses reads these tales, but I've decided that birding keeps me from workaholism.
- But what is clear is that workaholism is just wrong.