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company man
noun
- an employee whose allegiance to his employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.
company man
noun
- an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship
Word History and Origins
Origin of company man1
Idioms and Phrases
A male worker more loyal to management than to his fellow workers; also, one who informs on fellow employees. For example, He'll never join in a strike; he's a company man . Dating from the 1920s, a period of considerable labor unrest, this term uses company in the sense of “a business concern” and was often applied as a criticism by supporters of labor unions.Example Sentences
He's described as a "company man - an institutional champion who's privately embraced the draconian tactics of an antiquated and often vicious institution".
The elder Picard, at his core, is a company man through and through, and even in trying to guide Jack, all roads lead back to Starfleet, despite its being obviously not a good fit.
She longed to join her father, who, after years as a company man, had taken up reindeer herding.
It’s both predictable and sad because Beal has been as good a company man as any team or community could want.
Departing Intel after 30 years as a company man hurt badly.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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