noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a workaholic (= someone who never stops working )
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Selling is a career that seems to attract workaholics.
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Steve's doing a sixty-hour week at the moment - I never realized he could be such a workaholic .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A self-confessed control freak and workaholic , no-one is allowed in his control room.
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By 2015, workaholics were considered as socially handicapped as the chronically unemployed.
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He had one overriding ambition-to act-and confessed to being a workaholic .
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So when a blizzard or a budget standoff sends them home, some federal workaholics resort to extreme measures.
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There the young workaholic did everything from sharpening his own saw to delivering the product in a two-wheeled handcart.
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They can easily become workaholics, name droppers, gossips and braggarts.