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- noun One who is not a
careerist .
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non- + careerist
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A Harvard-trained lawyer too restlessly imaginative ever to practice, he became an admired career noncareerist who, for nearly forty years, alternated between think tanks and government, working effectively in appointive office at the NSC, as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and finally serving from 2001 to 2007 as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.
Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010
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