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careerist

Individual for whom personal advancement in a career assumes great importance in their life. The word can be used to describe someone who allows such sentiments to assume too great an importance in their life.



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Many view the latter as a careerist and egotist and--especially after his blocking of the constitutional reforms--as someone willing to sell off Bosnia's future in order to further his own political fortune.
DiCaprio forcefully connects with Costigan's profound sense of alienation and dislocation, and Damon is even better, turning Sullivan from a charming and skillful liar to a twitchy careerist consumed by self-preservation.
By paying teachers according to their credentials and the number of years they have been on the payroll rather than how well their students perform, the rewards go to the credentialed careerist, not necessarily to the meritorious teacher.
 
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