workaholic

English

Etymology

work +‎ -aholic

Noun

workaholic (plural workaholics)

1. A person who feels compelled to work excessively.

   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.

Translations

person

• Bulgarian: работохолик m (rabotoholik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工作狂 (zh) (gōngzuòkuáng), 拼命三郎 (zh) (pīnmìng sān láng)

• Czech: workoholik m
• Esperanto: labormaniulo
• Estonian: tööhoolik
• Finnish: työnarkomaani (fi)
• French: workaholique (fr) m or f, stakhanoviste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: მშრომელი (mšromeli)
• German: Arbeitstier (de) n, Arbeitssüchtiger m, Arbeitssüchtige f
• Greek: εργασιομανής (el) (ergasiomanís)
• Italian: stacanovista (it) m or f, stakanovista m or f
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• 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)
• Latvian: darbaholiks m
• Lithuanian: darboholikas m
• Macedonian: работозависник m (rabotozavisnik)
• Maori: ringa tōhaunui
• Polish: pracoholik (pl) m
• Portuguese: workaholic (pt) 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), тру́женик (ru) m (trúženik), тру́женица (ru) f (trúženica), стаха́новец (ru) m (staxánovec), стаха́новка (ru) f (staxánovka)
• Spanish: trabajólico (es) m, trabajólica f
• Swedish: arbetsnarkoman (sv) c
• Turkish: işkolik (tr)

Adjective

workaholic (comparative more workaholic, superlative most workaholic)

1. In the nature or manner of a workaholic.

Translations

in the nature or manner of a workaholic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工作狂的 (gōngzuòkuáng de)

• Finnish: työnarkomaaninen, työnarkomaani (fi)
• French: workaholique (fr), stakhanoviste (fr)
• Greek: εργασιομανής (el) (ergasiomanís)
• Italian: stacanovistico, stacanovista (it), stakanovistico, stakanovista
• Macedonian: ра́ботоза́висно (rábotozávisno)
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• Polish: pracoholik (pl)
• Romanian: workaholic, stahanovist
• Russian: трудоголик (ru) (trudogolik)
• Spanish: adicto al trabajo, trabajólico (es)
• Swedish: arbetsnarkoman (sv)
• Turkish: işkolik (tr)

See also

• workaholism
• workhorse
• ergomania

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English workaholic.

Noun

1. workaholic (person who feels compelled to work excessively)