company woman
- noun
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mujer leal a la empresa
- Everyone in the office knows that Janet is a company woman who will always support management’s decisions.
Examples
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Her reputation as a company woman helped her climb the corporate ladder quickly.
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As a true company woman, she never hesitated to work late when the business needed her.
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She is a dedicated company woman!
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Many company women prioritize their careers above everything else.
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As a true company woman, she never hesitated to work late when the business needed her.
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Everyone in the office knows that Janet is a company woman who will always support management's decisions.
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Her reputation as a company woman helped her climb the corporate ladder quickly.
Synonyms
A person who is more loyal to their company than to their coworkers
How Loyal
30
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The basic compositional meaning — a woman associated with or working for a company — is directly derivable from 'company' + 'woman', so learners will infer a female employee. However, the stronger pragmatic nuance that her primary loyalty is to the company (rather than colleagues) is an idiomatic extension that is not fully predictable without exposure, making the full sense only partially transparent.
Etymology
The term company woman may come from the older phrase 'company man', used for someone who always sided with their employer. The image is simple: company means the business and woman is the person, so it suggests a woman who belongs to and supports the company above others, which is why it means 'a woman loyal to the company'.