JOBHOLDERS Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

jobholders

noun

plural of jobholder

as in employees

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 jobholders Other jobholders included dads with young children and women with no kids. — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Norma Mitchell, cofounder of the business and grandmother of its current top executives, died of the disease, and many other family members, employees and customers have been touched by it.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Nearly eight in 10 Marriott associates in Europe say they are offered training or development to further themselves professionally, compared with just over half of employees at a typical European workplace.

— Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Conrad has done an outstanding job of pulling together a team of local workers at all levels of the business.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
During the boom years of the reform era, from 1978 to the early 2000s, China was a country of productive workers.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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