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company woman

American  

noun

  1. a female employee whose allegiance to her employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.


Example Sentences

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She was not, she decided, a company woman.

From New York Times

Maslany also plays a high-strung soccer mom, Alison Hendrix; a microbiologist named Cosima Niehaus, a Ukrainian assassin named Helena; a shallow, self-obsessed woman named Krystal Goderitch; a mysterious Finnish clone known as MK; and a frigid, British company woman named Rachel, who was raised to be the face of the sinister outfit behind the Neolutionists.

From Salon

“AseraCare denies the allegations in the case and looks forward to the opportunity to have all of the facts presented and considered by the Court,” company woman Kelli Luneborg said in an e-mail.

From Washington Post

She is a company woman who has spent her entire career working for the carmaker.

From Economist

She’s an affirmation of everything GM has done right, but also a company woman from the troubled years.

From BusinessWeek