jobholder
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈdʒɑːbˌhoʊldər/
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empleado
- Two studies (also here) with nationally representative data have shown that, controlling for education, experience, and the sex of the jobholder, the extent to which a job requires nurturance—an ability traditionally associated with women—is a significant negative wage predictor.
Examples
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The meetings are scheduled around the availability of all jobholders to ensure maximum participation.
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They, too, were Republican political jobholders.
Academic text (1996) -
Equally important is making non-college jobholders not for automatic military consideration.
Blog text (32) -
Although most of these jobholders had no hope of promotion, the city's black officeholders
Academic text (1992) -
Coercion of Italian-American political jobholders and WPA workers intensified during the 1938 Democratic primaries and particularly damaged Margiotti.
Academic text (1996) -
The adjusted household survey employment series is calculated by subtracting from total employment agriculture and related employment, nonagricultural self-employed, unpaid family and private household workers, and workers absent without pay from their jobs, and then adding nonagricultural wage and salary multiple jobholders.
Blog text (2) -
As a dedicated jobholder, she consistently delivers excellent results and meets her weekly targets.
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Many jobholders appreciate flexible work hours that allow them to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Synonyms
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1.3
A person hired by a company or another person to do paid work
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1.0
A person employed to do physical or routine jobs
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2.8
A person who works to get regular pay
Antonyms
How Secure
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jobholder is made of two words: job ('paid work') and holder ('one who has or holds something'), like cupholder holds a cup. So a jobholder is literally someone who 'holds' a job, a person who has a regular, paid position.