ca·reer·ist

[kuh-reer-ist]
noun
1.
a person who follows a career.
2.
a person who pursues a policy or attitude of careerism.

Origin:
1905–10; career + -ist

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careerist (kəˈrɪərɪst) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a person who values success in his career above all else and seeks to advance it by any possible means
 
ca'reerism
 
n

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Careerist is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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