careerism
(kəˈrɪərɪzm)
[f. career n. + -ism.]
The practice or policy of a careerist.
| 1933 Rahmat Ali Now or Never (1934) 4 They [sc. Muslim leaders] have, time and again, sacrificed their own political principles and our national patrimony for the sake of sheer opportunism and sordid careerism. 1946 E. Bentley Playwright as Thinker 58 The striving of modern careerism with all its vast implications. |