"careerist" meaning in English

See careerist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more careerist [comparative], most careerist [superlative]
Etymology: From career + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|career|ist}} career + -ist Head templates: {{en-adj}} careerist (comparative more careerist, superlative most careerist)
  1. Of or pertaining to such a person or way of life Translations (related to careerism): pyrkyrimäinen (Finnish), carriériste [feminine, masculine] (French), arywistyczny (Polish)
    Sense id: en-careerist-en-adj-Nfe580ZG

Noun

Forms: careerists [plural]
Etymology: From career + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|career|ist}} career + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} careerist (plural careerists)
  1. (derogatory) A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values. Tags: derogatory Translations (person who pursues his or her own career as his or her main aim): mənsəbpərəst (Azerbaijani), 野心家 (yěxīnjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), kariérista [masculine] (Czech), pyrkyri (Finnish), carriériste [feminine, masculine] (French), Karrierist [masculine] (German), Karrieristin [feminine] (German), καριερίστας (karierístas) [masculine] (Greek), баққұмар (baqqūmar) (Kazakh), мансапқор (mansapqor) (Kazakh), мансапқұмар (mansapqūmar) (Kazakh), arywista [masculine] (Polish), arywistka [feminine] (Polish), карьери́ст (karʹjeríst) [masculine] (Russian), карьери́стка (karʹjerístka) [feminine] (Russian), karriärist (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-careerist-en-noun-g0vQNlrf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 61 32 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 4 61 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 78 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 77 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 89 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 16 51 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 15 52 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 3 64 32 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 3 75 22 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 4 78 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 4 79 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 16 51 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 3 64 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 3 64 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 3 84 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 2 66 31 Disambiguation of 'person who pursues his or her own career as his or her main aim': 59 41
  2. A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than temporarily. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-careerist-en-noun-3PmBcVHB Disambiguation of People: 0 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: noncareerist Related terms: careerism

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.