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• n  person with a compulsive need to work

• A new Disneyland will bring in the tourists, but can it turn workaholic Hong Kong into Fun City?.
• From a modern, workaholic perspective, our partying ancestors were wasting precious time.
• The workaholic also has fantasies of omnipotence, imagining that no one but he can do what needs doing.

News & Articles

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• School system's finance chief retiring after 14 years
  Admitting that she's somewhat of a “workaholic,” Kerry Shannon, finance director for Henderson County Public Schools for the last 14 years, says she's ready to put down her spreadsheets and travel the world a bit with her husband when she retires later this month.
  June 13, 2013 - The Hendersonville Times-News

Quotes

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• Karl Malden in AFP
  I'm a workaholic,Malden said. "I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going."
• Lindsay Lohan in PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
  Speaking on US TV show TODAY, Lohan says, "I work harder than most of my friends' parents, I think. I'm the hardest working person I know. I don't really know what to do when I'm not working. I'm a workaholic - I get very creatively frustrated....
• Lucy Kellaway in EasyBourse.com
  The office is now the most likely place to meet the person you will marry. I married someone I met at the FT,Kellaway said. "In the US, there is this brutal workaholic streak and the Americans are much, much more politically correct. The...