Word family noun work workaholic worker working workings adjective workable ≠ unworkable overworked working verb work rework
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishworkaholicwork‧a‧hol‧ic /ˌwɜːkəˈhɒlɪk $ ˌwɜːrkəˈhɒː-/ noun [countable] informalWORK HARD someone who chooses to work a lot, so that they do not have time to do anything elseExamples from the Corpus
workaholic• By 2015, workaholics were considered as socially handicapped as the chronically unemployed.• He had one overriding ambition-to act-and confessed to being a workaholic.• Steve's doing a sixty-hour week at the moment - I never realized he could be such a workaholic.• A self-confessed control freak and workaholic, no-one is allowed in his control room.• Selling is a career that seems to attract workaholics.• They can easily become workaholics, name droppers, gossips and braggarts.• So when a blizzard or a budget standoff sends them home, some federal workaholics resort to extreme measures.• There the young workaholic did everything from sharpening his own saw to delivering the product in a two-wheeled handcart.From Longman Business Dictionaryworkaholicwork‧a‧hol‧ic /ˌwɜːkəˈhɒlɪkˌwɜːrkəˈhɒː-/ noun [countable] informal someone who cannot seem to stop working, and does not have time for anything else 