workaholic
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- noun
- /ˌwɜrkəˈhɔlɪk/
- Informal
:
adicto al trabajo
- He is such a workaholic that he often skips meals to finish his projects.
It doesn't become being a workaholic when you're doing your hobby.
- It doesn't become being a workaholic when you're doing your hobby.
- I have a disease, I'm a workaholic and it's like being an alcoholic.
- But they also tend to be quite conscientious or like I said, workaholics.
- And I've been accused of being a workaholic myself, my wife out there saying, uh huh.
- You know, he obviously he's, he's getting a bit older and he's still heavily, heavily involved because he's a workaholic.
- But I just I think this is the issue with workaholics is we think that the path to in a piece is just by aiming at the external goals.
- If you don't want to be a workaholic, where are you?
- So all you workaholics drink some beer.
- We are vagabonds and we are our own version of workaholics.
- Yeah, he is of a workaholic, right.
- Yeah, he is a workaholic, right?
Examples
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I'd remind myself that no amount of money is ever enough when you're a workaholic.
Blog text (7) -
Did I tell you I was a recovering workaholic?
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I am a complete workaholic and am doing all I can to get ahead.
Blog text (15) -
Having my dad around is nice because he was a workaholic, and I never saw him growing up very much.
Blog text (22) -
You are marrying a real workaholic.
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I am a 30-year-old former workaholic who recently left corporate America to focus on my own business.
Blog text (26) -
We are workaholics, so we love working because our hobby really became a job.
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Because he was a workaholic, Aaron had little time for simply socializing.
Academic text (2010) -
I think before I was so overworked, I was such a chronic workaholic that I didn't have a life.
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The workaholic, like other addicts, loses control of his or her life and becomes habitually dependent on work.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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1.3
A person who puts a lot of effort into their job or tasks
A person who works too much and does not rest or enjoy life
A person who works too much and misses family and friends
A person who does something more than is needed
A person who keeps working for long hours at boring tasks
A person who works quietly and steadily without seeking praise
Compounds
How Work-Obsessed
- Informal
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5.4
33
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Workaholic joins work and alcoholic, where alcoholic means someone 'addicted' to alcohol. So a workaholic is someone 'addicted' to work who finds it hard to stop.