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workalcoholic

workalcoholic noun: workaholic.

Noun

workalcoholic (plural workalcoholics)

  1. Workaholic.
    • 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
    • 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...

Adjective

workalcoholic (comparative more workalcoholic, superlative most workalcoholic)

  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

Examples of workalcoholic in a sentence

  • A workalcoholic himself, Srinivasan takes genuine interest in getting the right kind of people into the company.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.2014, Alexandra Medini, From This Day Forward, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Forms of workalcoholic

Noun
pluralworkalcoholics
Adjective
comparativemore workalcoholic
superlativemost workalcoholic

Origin of workalcoholic

From work + alcoholic.

Questions about workalcoholic

What does workalcoholic mean?
Workalcoholic means workaholic.
How do you use workalcoholic in a sentence?
A workalcoholic himself, Srinivasan takes genuine interest in getting the right kind of people into the company.
What part of speech is workalcoholic?
Workalcoholic can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of workalcoholic?
The plural of workalcoholic is workalcoholics.

Words near workalcoholic in the dictionary

  1. workadays
  2. workaholic
  3. workaholicism
  4. workaholics
  5. workaholism
  6. workalcoholic
  7. workalcoholics
  8. workalike
  9. workalikes
  10. workamper
  11. workampers

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