An American term for someone holding regular, steady employment — a person with a job in the conventional sense. It is a somewhat formal or bureaucratic word, more commonly found in sociological writing, labor statistics, or older journalism than in casual speech. It implies stability and regularity: a jobholder has ongoing employment rather than gig work or occasional income.
The report found that jobholders in manufacturing had seen no real wage growth in a decade.
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(US) Someone who is employed in a regular job.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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