empleomania
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See also: empleomanía
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish empleomanía.
Noun[edit]
empleomania (uncountable)
- (in Spanish-speaking countries) The desire to obtain a government job.
- 1898, The Forum, volume 27, page 159:
- "Do ut des" is the motto of Spanish public life; empleomania is rife to a degree unknown elsewhere; and empleomania is the chief instrument of political corruption.