company man

Definition of company man

: a worker who acquiesces in company policy without complaint

Examples of company man in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web At age 42, Brady is no longer playing the company man. — BostonGlobe.com, "Patriots receivers catch more heat than passes from Tom Brady - The Boston Globe," 3 Dec. 2019 The 1980s saw the inscrutable foreigner with his secret allegiance to the emperor evolve into the company man with an obsessive allegiance to work. — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, "The Factory Is a Chilling Account of the Contemporary Workplace," 2 Dec. 2019 Asked about not pitching, Cole, who has spent two seasons in Houston after five in Pittsburgh, was a company man. — Cindy Boren, chicagotribune.com, "Gerrit Cole moves on from Astros: ‘Technically, I’m unemployed’," 31 Oct. 2019 The Jagat Seths then bribed the company men to attack Siraj. — Iain Murray, National Review, "The Rise of the East India Company Is Not a Cautionary Tale about Corporate Power," 2 Nov. 2019 But for Nike, Franklin’s rapid transformation from trusted company man to whistleblower has created what may be the worst legal and public relations crisis in the company’s history. — oregonlive, "Bad blood, betrayal turns L.A. coach into Nike whistleblower," 7 Sep. 2019 Good for Kenny Stills, who’s not going to play company man. — Conor Orr, SI.com, "Josh Allen’s Growing Confidence, Zeke Fires Back at Jerry Jones, More NFL Notes," 19 Aug. 2019 Law was a company man, but that company was Tajuan E. Law Inc. — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, "There was no such thing as a game too big for Ty Law," 2 Aug. 2019 Brown’s long career at MGM came with a price—a reputation as a company man that did him no favors with critics who established directorial hierarchies. — Scott Eyman, WSJ, "‘Clarence Brown’ Review: More Than a Company Man," 19 Oct. 2018

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26 Dec 2019

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/company%20man. Accessed 17 Feb. 2020.

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