empleomanian.

Brit.

/ˌɛmplɪə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S.

/ˌɛmpliəˈmeɪniə/

Forms: 1800s– empleomania, 1900s– empleomanía.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish empleomanía.

Etymology: < Spanish empleomanía (1820–3 or earlier) < empleo employment (see employ n.) + -manía -mania comb. form.

Mania for holding public office.Esp. in contexts relating to Spain and Latin America.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > [noun] > the holding of office > mania for

empleomania1845

1845 T. M. Hughes Revelations of Spain I. xix. 193 This first of prime ministers [sc. Luis González Bravo] is the living impersonation and type of the prevailing Spanish vice of empleomania or rage for office.

1878 J. R. Lowell Let. 26 Aug. in Cent. Mag. (1898) Nov. 144/1 The empleomania, which is the dry-rot of Spain.

1920 Glasgow Herald 23 Oct. 12 The evil which has sapped the vigour of so many nations—‘empleomania’—has made its insidious way into British administrative departments.

2002 ‘H. Jin’ Crazed xxxi. 275 It dawned on me that Mr. Yang's desire to become a scholar-official might not have originated only from empleomania.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	empleomania
释义	empleomanian. Brit. /ˌɛmplɪə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌɛmpliəˈmeɪniə/ Forms: 1800s– empleomania, 1900s– empleomanía. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish empleomanía. Etymology: < Spanish empleomanía (1820–3 or earlier) < empleo employment (see employ n.) + -manía -mania comb. form. Mania for holding public office.Esp. in contexts relating to Spain and Latin America. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > the holding of office > mania for empleomania1845 1845 T. M. Hughes Revelations of Spain I. xix. 193 This first of prime ministers [sc. Luis González Bravo] is the living impersonation and type of the prevailing Spanish vice of empleomania or rage for office. 1878 J. R. Lowell Let. 26 Aug. in Cent. Mag. (1898) Nov. 144/1 The empleomania, which is the dry-rot of Spain. 1920 Glasgow Herald 23 Oct. 12 The evil which has sapped the vigour of so many nations—‘empleomania’—has made its insidious way into British administrative departments. 2002 ‘H. Jin’ Crazed xxxi. 275 It dawned on me that Mr. Yang's desire to become a scholar-official might not have originated only from empleomania. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845
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