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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who has a regular job.

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  • noun US Someone who is employed in a regular job

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  • noun an employee who holds a regular job

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Examples

  • If the jobholder is an Ambassador to the Children and is going to be going on a million school visits and encouraging reading programs and inspiring librarians -- then it may as well be someone like Rick Reardon, fairly new but high profile.

    In the footsteps of giants Roger Sutton 2009

  • The jobholder should be a graduate microbiologist or similar and have experience in a production support environment with detailed microbiological and advanced food hygiene knowledge.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • The jobholder should be a graduate microbiologist or similar and have experience in a production support environment with detailed microbiological and advanced food hygiene knowledge.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • Economists should have a similar adage: a job is whatever the jobholder says it is.

    Labor Market Surveys Diverge, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The president's wife, unlike an agency head or a regular White House jobholder, does not have to answer to any boss.

    Clinton's Accountability 2008

  • The school could not have her trained by the previous jobholder because they could not have two people with the same job at the same time.

    Reactions to the Record II Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • So all in all, with some demerits for screwups and gold stars for effort, I think it's fair to say that as a worker, a jobholder, I deserve a B or maybe B+.

    Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001

  • 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.

    Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001

  • Coping effectively with this type of situation requires that the jobholder bring considerable assets to the job.

    Power and Influence John P. Kotter 1985

  • This arrangement makes the jobholder dependent on all the people who make those products, who advertise them, who sell them, who distribute them, and so forth.

    Power and Influence John P. Kotter 1985

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