company man
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.39 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serving the interests of the organization which employs him.
noun
A spy or other operative of an intelligence service, especially the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
noun
A male homosexual.
Example Sentences
- "[B]oth sides accuse him of favoring the other. Certain players have accused him of being a company man."
- "What was expected of men, it seemed, was to be a company man. Foster (1969:156) refers to this as the assumption that "achievement of organizational goals represents the highest value.""
- ""He was an old-fashioned company man. He lived and breathed Columbia Pictures.""
- "Like virtually every other director in the '30s and '40s, Ford was obliged to be a company man, rankling under his boss's gaze."
- "But many say he nevertheless is more in the mold of the quiet, no-questions-asked company men who built the C.I.A. in the 1960's and 70's and ran it in the 80's."
- "Body of Lies is set in the grim and violent world of Middle East counter-terrorism. Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is the CIA’s man on the front line. . . . His every move is instructed and monitored by his boss Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), a fast-talking and amoral company man running the war on terrorism via satellite."