workalcoholic

workalcoholic

English

Etymology

work +‎ alcoholic.

Noun

workalcoholic (plural workalcoholics)

1. Workaholic.
   • 1981, Army Research, Development and Acquisition

     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.

   • 2005, Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Ian Skoggard, Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Volume I: Overviews and Topics; Volume II: Diaspora Communities, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 989

     Koreans generally work very hard and are often considered to be workalcoholics.

   • 2009, V.S.P. Rao, V Hari Krishna, Management: Text and Cases, Excel Books India (→ISBN), page 351

     A workalcoholic himself, Srinivasan takes genuine interest in getting the right kind of people into the company. Even today, every hiring decision (even blue-collar jobs) has to be okayed by him.

   • 2014, Alexandra Medini, From This Day Forward, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN)

     Trust me, I've been known to be a workalcoholic. So keeping focus on business shouldn't be a problem.

Adjective

workalcoholic (comparative more workalcoholic, superlative most workalcoholic)

1. Workaholic.
   • 2003, Marie Beach, Lighten Up! Lose Weight!: A 10 Week Self-Hypnosis Program, Trafford Publishing (→ISBN), page 31

     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.