Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One who has a regular job.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Someone who is employed in a regular job
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an employee who holds a regular job
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the jobholder is an Ambassador to the Children and is going to be going on a million school visits and encouraging reading programs and inspiring librarians -- then it may as well be someone like Rick Reardon, fairly new but high profile.
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The jobholder should be a graduate microbiologist or similar and have experience in a production support environment with detailed microbiological and advanced food hygiene knowledge.
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Economists should have a similar adage: a job is whatever the jobholder says it is.
Labor Market Surveys Diverge, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The president's wife, unlike an agency head or a regular White House jobholder, does not have to answer to any boss.
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The school could not have her trained by the previous jobholder because they could not have two people with the same job at the same time.
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I got one and sometimes more than one, but my track record in the survival department is far less admirable than my performance as a jobholder.
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So all in all, with some demerits for screwups and gold stars for effort, I think it's fair to say that as a worker, a jobholder, I deserve a B or maybe B+.
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Coping effectively with this type of situation requires that the jobholder bring considerable assets to the job.
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This arrangement makes the jobholder dependent on all the people who make those products, who advertise them, who sell them, who distribute them, and so forth.
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Many families had at least one jobholder, such as Mr. Daly or a steel man like Victor, unaffected by the changeover.
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