workalcoholic

plural workalcoholics

1. Workaholic.

   Koreans generally work very hard and are often considered to be workalcoholics.

   2005, Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Ian Skoggard, Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Volume I: Overviews and Topics; Volume II: Diaspora Communities, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 989

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   The term workalcoholic, continued Carney, is wrongly used in a negative context. Workalcoholics are just as happy as the person who only works 40 hours a week.

   1981, Army Research, Development and Acquisition

   A workalcoholic himself, Srinivasan takes genuine interest in getting the right kind of people into the company. Even today, every hiring decision (even blue-collar jobs) has to be okayed by him.

   2009, V.S.P. Rao, V Hari Krishna, Management: Text and Cases, Excel Books India, →ISBN, page 351

   Trust me, I've been known to be a workalcoholic. So keeping focus on business shouldn't be a problem.

   2014, Alexandra Medini, From This Day Forward, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN

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1. Workaholic.

   But the biggest reason we're getting fatter is in our workalcoholic culture where success is akin to godliness and filaments of Puritanism still remain, we use food as one of our few paths to pleasure.

   2003, Marie Beach, Lighten Up! Lose Weight!: A 10 Week Self-Hypnosis Program, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 31