jobholder

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The long career of James John Davis as a Federal jobholder was punctuated last week by a 33-minute lapse into private citizenship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anyone 16 or over who did any work at all for pay or profit during the week before the survey is regarded as a jobholder; there is no upper age limit.

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On the high stiff back of each chair was a metal plate naming the Cabinet job but not the jobholder.

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Franz von Papen, sly oldtime German diplomat, World War I spy, and jobholder under Hitler from 1933 down to the end.

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I got one and sometimes more than one, but my track record in the survival department is far less admirable than my performance as a jobholder.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich