workaholic
/wəːkəˈhɒlɪk
/noun informal
A person who compulsively works excessively hard and long hours.Until he met Francesca he was a workaholic who enjoyed playing hard....
- He's a workaholic, and hard work is one of the key things in management.
- A compulsive workaholic and an absentee publisher, he has tried a number of different tactics to revive the papers.
Derivatives
workaholism
- I think I was spiralling into obsessive workaholism which is not healthy.
- Perhaps I should not admit such things now that one of my bosses reads these tales, but I've decided that birding keeps me from workaholism.
- But what is clear is that workaholism is just wrong.
Rhymes
- critical opalescence
- critical path
- critical path analysis
- critical period
- critical point
- critical pressure
- critical state
- critical temperature
- critical theory
- critical thinking
- critical volume
- criticaster
- criticise
- criticism
- criticizable
- criticize
- criticizer
- critique
- critter
- CRM
- croak
- croaker
- croakily
- croaky
- Croat