career-limiting move
- noun
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decisión que limita la carrera
- Ignoring the deadlines consistently became a career-limiting move for him in the company.
Examples
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Saying "ni" (props to Monty Python) to BYOD is a career-limiting move for IT folks.
Blog text (1) -
Not attending the important meetings was a clear career-limiting move for her.
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Choosing to criticize the boss in front of the team turned out to be a career-limiting move.
Synonyms
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An action that ends a person's career or future job chances
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Morphology
career-limiting + move
The phrase is transparently built from 'career' (professional progression) + 'limiting' (restricting) + 'move' (an action), so a learner who knows those words can infer it means an action that restricts or harms one's career advancement. The 'X-limiting' pattern is productive and follows a straightforward compositional logic, making the overall meaning recoverable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Career-limiting move may come from the image of a person climbing a ladder to success; a wrong move can break a step and stop their career from going up. That's why the phrase means 'an action that hurts your chances to move up at work'.