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Definition of workaholic in English: workaholicnoun wəːkəˈhɒlɪk informal A person who compulsively works excessively hard and long hours. 〈非正式〉工作狂 Example sentencesExamples - A compulsive workaholic and an absentee publisher, he has tried a number of different tactics to revive the papers.
- He's a workaholic, and hard work is one of the key things in management.
- Until he met Francesca he was a workaholic who enjoyed playing hard.
- In a profession that's notorious for breeding workaholics, burnout is always a threat.
- In his twenties, however, he became a bit of a workaholic, working 12 to 15 hour days and doing no exercise.
- She and her husband were workaholics - for her, four hours’ sleep a night was always more than adequate.
- He is a workaholic who puts in 14 to 15 hours a day and has a meticulous eye for detail.
- Working too much takes its toll on people's health and relationships, yet most workaholics are hailed as heroes, or at least model employees.
- I was a workaholic, to be honest, and I'd spent 23 years working all over the country and basically living in a caravan.
- Alcoholic children have a tendency to be workaholics.
- As a confessed workaholic, who packs in 14 hour days, seven days a week, a social life comes low in her priorities.
- For starters, poor timing couldn't stop the three biggest workaholics in Hollywood from pumping out back-to-back releases.
- Either they think my parents force me to study, or pass me off as one of those compulsive workaholics - you know - the aggressive people who really take the philosophy that if you don't work to get ahead you fall behind.
- Like all workaholics, I struggle with innate laziness.
- I think you are looking at two workaholics.
- Someday, all of us will have to become workaholics, happy or not, just to get by.
- While processed dishes are becoming a major staple for the generation of non-traditional, Westernized, free-spending workaholics, the older folk are not so easily swayed.
- In a nation of multitasking workaholics, insomnia strikes 127 million adults.
- But rather than planning to create a future generation of workaholics, Dr Richmond said the new research could be used to study mental illness.
- However, many people do this out of habit, or to give off the impression that they are such workaholics that they never have time for a real meal.
Synonyms hard worker, toiler, workhorse, stakhanovite, galley slave
Derivativesnoun ˈwəːkəhɒlɪz(ə)m mass nouninformal A compulsion to work excessively hard and long hours. 〈非正式〉工作狂 a culture where materialism and workaholism are rampant Example sentencesExamples - I was spiralling into obsessive 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.
Rhymesalcoholic, anabolic, apostolic, bucolic, carbolic, chocoholic, colic, diabolic, embolic, frolic, hydraulic, hyperbolic, melancholic, metabolic, parabolic, rollick, shambolic, shopaholic, symbolic, vitriolic Definition of workaholic in US English: workaholicnoun informal A person who compulsively works hard and long hours. 〈非正式〉工作狂 Example sentencesExamples - A compulsive workaholic and an absentee publisher, he has tried a number of different tactics to revive the papers.
- He's a workaholic, and hard work is one of the key things in management.
- Working too much takes its toll on people's health and relationships, yet most workaholics are hailed as heroes, or at least model employees.
- She and her husband were workaholics - for her, four hours’ sleep a night was always more than adequate.
- Until he met Francesca he was a workaholic who enjoyed playing hard.
- Someday, all of us will have to become workaholics, happy or not, just to get by.
- While processed dishes are becoming a major staple for the generation of non-traditional, Westernized, free-spending workaholics, the older folk are not so easily swayed.
- For starters, poor timing couldn't stop the three biggest workaholics in Hollywood from pumping out back-to-back releases.
- Alcoholic children have a tendency to be workaholics.
- In his twenties, however, he became a bit of a workaholic, working 12 to 15 hour days and doing no exercise.
- But rather than planning to create a future generation of workaholics, Dr Richmond said the new research could be used to study mental illness.
- Like all workaholics, I struggle with innate laziness.
- However, many people do this out of habit, or to give off the impression that they are such workaholics that they never have time for a real meal.
- In a nation of multitasking workaholics, insomnia strikes 127 million adults.
- I was a workaholic, to be honest, and I'd spent 23 years working all over the country and basically living in a caravan.
- Either they think my parents force me to study, or pass me off as one of those compulsive workaholics - you know - the aggressive people who really take the philosophy that if you don't work to get ahead you fall behind.
- As a confessed workaholic, who packs in 14 hour days, seven days a week, a social life comes low in her priorities.
- In a profession that's notorious for breeding workaholics, burnout is always a threat.
- He is a workaholic who puts in 14 to 15 hours a day and has a meticulous eye for detail.
- I think you are looking at two workaholics.
Synonyms hard worker, toiler, workhorse, stakhanovite, galley slave
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