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say it: kur-IR-ist
careerist is a noun meaning "a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity". It carries one recorded sense.
a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for careerist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.