career-limiting move
career-limiting move noun: an act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.
Noun
career-limiting move (plural career-limiting moves)
- An act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.
- However, such a career limiting move is only worth while if it can be reasonably expected to succeed in changing the wrong-headed policy.1991 Oct 08: dan herrick, Re: IV&V as a tool for dealing with "mistakes" and uncertainty, sci.space, http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space/msg/87a7ffb1d5a872df?dmode=source&hl=en
- Consequently, it can be a career-limiting move not to consider carefully all these issues during the design phase.1995 Jan 11: Kay Hammer as cited in Neil Raden, Re: Data Warehousing, comp.databases, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases/msg/7176488e9967cceb?dmode=source&hl=en
Forms of career-limiting move
| plural | career-limiting moves |
|---|---|
| alternative form | career limiting move |
Questions about career-limiting move
- What does career-limiting move mean?
- Career-limiting move means an act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.
- What part of speech is career-limiting move?
- Career-limiting move is a noun.
- What is the plural of career-limiting move?
- The plural of career-limiting move is career-limiting moves.
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