JOBHOLDER Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

jobholder

noun

ˈjäb-ˌhōl-dər

Definition of jobholder

as in employee

one who works for another for wages or a salary more jobholders than the state agency has ever had in the past

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Recent Examples of jobholder Rather than a sign of relief from high food prices, researchers say that over half of jobholders are responding to inflation by skipping meals. — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 Other jobholders included dads with young children and women with no kids. — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 Labor force indicators are at best mediocre, although the 800,000 reduction in jobholder numbers from a normal annual benchmarking with fully complete data is overblown. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025 Conservatives see in such a report only a vast political machine greased with the millions that each month line the pockets of federal jobholders. — Marquis William Childs, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 Women have replaced men as the majority of jobholders and participation for prime-age women has hit a record 19-year high, according to Labor Department data released earlier this month. — Courtney Subramanian, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020 The figures mark a divergence from the United States, where women eclipsed men as the majority of jobholders. — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020 Prior jobholder resigned in March after failing to appreciate the bank’s new status as a public utility. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 June 2019

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Noun

Such a promise needs to be written down, with a way for employees to challenge a broken commitment.

— Christoph Trattner, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
In an interview with Inside Edition on Tuesday, store owner Adam Rubin said that his store has been review-bombed since Clarkson took to social media and named the store, and employees and surrounding businesses have been harassed.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of employee

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As part of orchestrating this project, Simon was also involved in securing visas for the various international performers, encountering in the process the uneven access to travel for cultural workers across classes, nationalities, and milieus.

— Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
The headman is compromised, an NGO in the area is pursuing its own politics, and the man running the mine discloses that Nengsal was never on the books, leaving workers like him invisible on their own land.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

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