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careerism

[ US /kɝˈiɹɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity

How To Use careerism In A Sentence

  • The insularity of Washington, pressures of careerism, fear of appearing soft and the absence of institutional alternatives all contribute to a limiting of the debate.
  • Corruption, political careerism and muck-raking news reports conspire to tighten the noose around the innocent man's neck. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the ANC was genuinely trying to stop "careerism" within its ranks, it was going about it the wrong way. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The ANC has had to contend with an exodus of experienced leadership from full-time organisational work, with weakened branches, and with the emergence of tendencies such as careerism and factionalism. ANC Today
  • We were a tight group, despite the anxious careerism.
  • This should be combined with addressing challenges of accountability and dispassionately managing the negative effects of incumbency such as careerism, competition for status, corruption and so on. Contextual considerations in addressing challenges of leadership
  • I'd also achieved my first foreign assignment (to New York) as a journalist; careerism was starting to grip.
  • This process of branch restructuring has enthused our membership in Johannesburg and contributed decisively to building the unity of our movement and eliminating negative tendencies such as factionalism, careerism and opportunism. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • What progress are we making, since the NGC, in rolling back negative tendencies such as factionalism, careerism, opportunism and corruption in our ranks? CONFERENCE UPDATE/3
  • In other words, the fires of feminism may have burned down to the ashes of careerism.
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