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English
Etymology
From work + -aholic.
Pronunciation
Noun
workaholic (plural workaholics)
- A person who feels compelled to work excessively, including while at home.
All workaholics should move to Hong Kong, where working hours average over 50 per week.
2016, JoAnneh Nagler, How to be an artist without losing your mind, your shirt, or your creative compass, →ISBN, page 80:We're not looking to become workaholics who don't know how to rest or vacation, or who never hang it up long enough to go to a movie.
Descendants
Translations
person
- Belarusian: працаго́лік m (pracahólik), працаві́к m (pracavík), працаві́чка f (pracavíčka)
- Bulgarian: работохо́лик m (rabotohólik), работохо́личка f (rabotohólička)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 工作狂 (zh) (gōngzuòkuáng), 拼命三郎 (zh) (pīnmìng sān láng)
- Czech: workoholik m, workoholička f
- Danish: arbejdsnarkoman c
- Dutch: workaholic (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: labormaniulo
- Estonian: tööhoolik, töönarkomaan
- Finnish: työnarkomaani (fi)
- French: workaholique (fr) m or f, stakhanoviste (fr) m or f, bourreau de travail (fr) m
- Georgian: მშრომელი (mšromeli)
- German: Arbeitstier (de) n, Arbeitssüchtiger m, Arbeitssüchtige f
- Greek: εργασιομανής (el) (ergasiomanís)
- Hungarian: munkamániás (hu)
- Italian: stacanovista (it) m or f, stakanovista m or f
- Japanese: 仕事中毒の人 (しごとちゅうどくのひと, shigotochūdoku no hito), 働き中毒 (はたらきちゅうどく, hatarakichūdoku), 仕事の虫 (しごとのむし, shigoto no mushi)
- Korean: 일중독증 (iljungdokjeung)
- Latvian: darbaholiks m
- Lithuanian: darboholikas m
- Macedonian: работоза́висник m (rabotozávisnik), работохо́лик m (rabotohólik)
- Maori: ringa tōhaunui
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: arbeidsnarkoman m
- Polish: pracoholik (pl) m, pracoholiczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: workaholic (pt) m or f, trabalhólatra m or f
- Romanian: workaholic m, stahanovist m
- Russian: работя́га (ru) m or f (rabotjága), трудя́га (ru) m or f (trudjága), трудого́лик (ru) m (trudogólik), трудоголи́чка (ru) f (trudogolíčka), тру́женик (ru) m (trúženik), тру́женица (ru) f (trúženica), стаха́новец (ru) m (staxánovec), стаха́новка (ru) f (staxánovka), работого́лик (ru) m (rabotogólik), работоголи́чка f (rabotogolíčka)
- Spanish: trabajólico (es) m, trabajólica (es) f
- Swedish: arbetsnarkoman (sv) c, arbetsmyra (sv) c
- Thai: คนบ้างาน
- Turkish: işkolik (tr)
- Ukrainian: трудого́лік m (trudohólik), працего́лік m (pracehólik), трудя́га m or f (trudjáha), трудя́ка m or f (trudjáka), роботя́га m or f (robotjáha)
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Adjective
workaholic (comparative more workaholic, superlative most workaholic)
- In the nature or manner of a workaholic.
Translations
in the nature or manner of a workaholic
See also
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English workaholic.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /u.oʁ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/ , (faster pronunciation) /woʁ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /u.oʁ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/ , (faster pronunciation) /woʁ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /u.oɾ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/ , (faster pronunciation) /woɾ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /u.oʁ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/ , (faster pronunciation) /woʁ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ki/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /u.oɻ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ke/ , (faster pronunciation) /woɻ.kaˈʁɔ.li.ke/
Noun
workaholic m or f by sense (plural workaholics)
- workaholic (person who feels compelled to work excessively)
- Synonym: (neologism) trabalhólatra
