Workalcoholic

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From work + alcoholic.

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