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Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied.
Peter York

Meaning of "careerist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CAREERIST

careerist  [kəˈrɪərɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAREERIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Careerist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CAREERIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Extreme careerism

According to Bratton and Kacmar's article, The Dark Side of Impression Management, extreme careerism is the propensity to pursue career advancement, power, and prestige through any positive or negative non-performance based activity that is deemed necessary. These "non-performance" based activities are activities in which an employee can easily manipulate the people whom he is trying to impress. Extreme careerism has become increasingly common in the business and organisational world in the 1990s and 2000s. In the United States, seventeen additional workdays have been added to the calendar since 1994.

Definition of careerist in the English dictionary

The definition of careerist in the dictionary is a person who values success in his career above all else and seeks to advance it by any possible means.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAREERIST


antinuclearist
ˌæntɪˈnjuːklɪərɪst
aorist
ˈeɪərɪst
apiarist
ˈeɪpɪərɪst
clavierist
kləˈvɪərɪst
dearest
ˈdɪərɪst
diarist
ˈdaɪərɪst
Everest
ˈɛvərɪst
Fourierist
ˈfʊərɪərɪst
humorist
ˈhjuːmərɪst
jurist
ˈdʒʊərɪst
lyrist
ˈlaɪərɪst
meliorist
ˈmiːlɪərɪst
meteorist
ˈmiːtɪərɪst
pronuclearist
ˌprəʊˈnjuːklɪərɪst
querist
ˈkwɪərɪst
terrorist
ˈtɛrərɪst
topiarist
ˈtəʊpɪərɪst
tourist
ˈtʊərɪst
tutiorist
ˈtjuːtɪərɪst
verist
ˈvɪərɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAREERIST

careener
career
career break
career criminal
career development
career girl
career move
career prospects
career woman
careerer
careerism
careers adviser
careers advisor
careers counselor
careers guidance
careers master
careers mistress
careers office
Careers Officer
careers teacher

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAREERIST

artillerist
Christ
coleopterist
computerist
consumerist
dipterist
ephemerist
euhemerist
gallerist
leerist
lepidopterist
mannerist
mesmerist
neoterist
neuropterist
orthopterist
phalansterist
preterist
reverist
scooterist
trailerist

Synonyms and antonyms of careerist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «careerist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAREERIST

Find out the translation of careerist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of careerist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «careerist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

野心家
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arribista
570 millions of speakers

English

careerist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पदलोलुप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحترفين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

карьерист
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

carreirista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবনে উন্নতিলাভে আগ্রহশীল ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

carriériste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerjaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Karrierist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

出世
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

출세
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Careerist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tham vọng nghề nghiệp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிழைப்புவாதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यवसायिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mesleki başarıyı ön planda tutan kimse
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

carrierista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

karierowicz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кар´єрист
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

carierist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καριερίστα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beroepsondersteuners
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

careerist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

caree
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of careerist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAREERIST»

The term «careerist» is regularly used and occupies the 59.378 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAREERIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about careerist

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2 QUOTES WITH «CAREERIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word careerist.
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Arundhati Roy
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.
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Peter York
Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAREERIST»

Discover the use of careerist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to careerist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Careerist: Over 100 Ways to Get Ahead at Work
The Careerist - 100 ways to get ahead at work is a handy, quick-fix reference guide on how to improve your career prospects.
Rhymer Rigby, 2012
2
Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success
Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start "Take everything you think you 'know' about career strategies, throw them away, and read this book because the rules have changed.
Penelope Trunk, 2009
3
Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Careerist's Guide to Success, ...
In a politically incorrect self-help guide, the author offers advice to aspiring careerists on how to seek out the acquaintance of people richer and more important than oneself, how to use flattery effectively, and more Lapham's Rules of ...
Lewis H. Lapham, 1999
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Parasuicidality and Paradox: Breaking Through the Medical Model
Clearly, such a derogatory view of the patient careerist also threatens her with the negative judgment of an active other. Parasuicidality is the most easily accessible resource for the patient careerist as she attempts to escape these threats.
Ross D. Ellenhorn MSW, PhD, 2007
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College Life through the Eyes of Students
Fourteen of the forty-three PGC students are involved in the careerist cultural orientation. Seven of the seventeen first-generation students participate intensely in careerist pursuits. CAREERIST/ACADEMIC Of the twenty-one people whose ...
Mary Grigsby, 2009
6
Organizational Careers
His occupational history, his relatively uncomplicated outlook and career aspirations, probably put the Rank-and-File Careerist closer than any of my role- orientation types to the thousands of full-time functionaries in the labor movement who ...
Barney G. Glaser, 1968
7
Trust and Human Resource Management
Such strategies should also help to suppress and reduce the emergence of more negative career-related attitudes and behaviours in their employees, such as careerist orientations to work (for example, Aryee and Chen, 2004). Empirical ...
Rosalind Searle, Denise Skinner, 2011
8
The Economy As a System of Power
The craftsperson's values are intrinsic and internal, while the careerist's values are extrinsic and external. The careerist is a contaminated crafts- person, a craftsperson on the make. The careerist performs tasks to advance his career, rather ...
Marc Reed Tool, Warren Joseph Samuels, 1989
9
Inside Omb: Politics and Process in the President's Budget ...
OMB careerist-congressional contacts, when properly controlled, contributed to the maintenance of better communications between the President and the Congress. Insulation of OMB careerists from congressional information sources would ...
Shelley Lynne Tomkin, Tomkin, 1998
10
The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control ...
I also estimated models where appointee or careerist management (or percent of managers appointed) is modeled directly along with the program's performance. In these models, I could not reject the hypothesis that the estimates were the ...
David E. Lewis, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAREERIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term careerist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Green Hell by Ken Bruen
For all of Bruen's ongoing mastery of the crime fiction form, something just feels careerist, and bordering on the trivial, about new Jack Taylor ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Jim Nowlan: Addressing Chicago's mess
... its public schools and the surrounding county of Cook mirror those of the state of Illinois — inexcusable myopia by careerist elected officials ... «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, Jul 15»
3
TV review: Veep Season 4, Sky Atlantic
... press secretary Mike McClintock, while Anna Chlumsky and Reid Scott make a perfect double act as careerist campaign managers / lobbyists ... «The List, Jul 15»
4
Reporters' Notebook
Her story of moving from fundraising to owning a startup accounting firm took first place as best “New Careerist.” ... HEAVY WEEDING – The ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
5
What's on TV Wednesday: Ashes bring the chatter of cricket
Reliable leads Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, as the careerist seeking an idiot to bring to a particularly cruel dinner party, and the idiot, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
6
New exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights John Singer …
Sargent was unquestionably a careerist. Being a successful portrait painter required a lot of networking, and Sargent, who was born in Florence ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
7
SNP councillor abandons Holyrood ambitions amid claims she was …
... site accused her of “lacking any integrity or morals”, while another message described her as a “self-serving opportunist and careerist”. «The Courier, Jul 15»
8
Before a dedicated officer for Sanskrit, what the foreign ministry …
The general careerist approach of the IFS is also seen as a factor that slows down any sort of radical reform. Experts with experience at the top ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
9
Josh Hayward of The Horrors: 'I don't think we've ever really followed …
'We wanted to release a seven-inch and that was about it. 'We weren't careerist – we didn't sit down and say one day we want to be rock stars. «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
10
Optimize your most important keyword on LinkedIn
Career expert Donna Svei of Avid Careerist points out ten ways to increase your LinkedIn profile views. The top three tips involve your ... «ITworld, Jul 15»

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