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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 seemed like the ultimate company man, but at 43, he bet on himself.
It trains people who make superb company men, but not scrappy entrepreneurs.
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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