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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
A former CIA director who has worked in government for decades, Robert Gates is a company man in a one-industry town.
A Company man, his tunic shabby and open in a negligent fashion at his thick throat, stood waiting for them.
In about ten minutes time he was relieved, and a D Company man took his place.
The fellow looked more like a turf-stack than a light-company man.
"We can make them of wood," I suggested, remembering the tale of a company man.
That was one day when the best company man became a clock-watcher.
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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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