One who strives.
striver
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for striver.
Editorial note
You have been blessed not to grow up with a narcissist or vicarious striver as a parent.
Quick take
One who strives.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of striver gathered in one view.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for striver.
noun
One who strives.
See also: hard-worker, slave
Example sentences
You have been blessed not to grow up with a narcissist or vicarious striver as a parent.
You're not a mismatch for E1 on values if you're a corporate striver, but you'll still never cross that divide.
He's probably a very conscientious and energetic striver and is trying to break free from that.
Hard worker, smart learner, striver, can manage a calendar and communicate well in corporate environments.
The one-millionth-and-one article to fan petit bourgeois striver angst over maybe possibly not getting-in on the grift of mainstream academia--like economics.
Vicarious striver sounds like you have a psychological diagnosis in mind, but I can't find anything on it?
And the plurality of Harvard students aren't wealthy legacies, they're striver upper middle class kids that worked their asses off in high school.
What does a career striver look like in the imperial ranks?
In regards to violations holding the striver instead of the company liable, I see it exactly the opposite way you do.
It's okay to be a striver that works at Google.
Now, maybe he'll get promoted more slowly than his potential as a striver, but I don't actually think that's going to happen.
That only worked because college was a finishing school for the well brought up (plus the occasional striver), and businesses felt comfortable just trying to hire that demographic.
Quote examples
Can the title be changed to something like "India: The Surprising Striver in the World’s Space Business"?
I'm truly surprised that companies have not made better use of their "striver" engineers or compensated them enough to keep them striving.
Between 30 and 40 often marks a shift in attitudes because you're getting out of the feeling of being a "young striver" trying to get ahead of the crowd in a highly visible space.
A checked out Engineer who collects 90-100k and is able to cruise at 6/10 levels of happiness under most conditions or a "striver" Senior Engineer who gets 130k but is pretty much always unhappy at work for one reason or another?
Proper noun examples
Striver-immigrant culture and extreme focus on family (at one time a part of Jewish-American immigrant culture too, often more an immigrant thing than a particular culture's thing) cause people to overoptimize their kids' upbringing on being good little subservient worker-bee children, often leaving them semi-crippled when required to function as independent adults.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use striver in a sentence?
You have been blessed not to grow up with a narcissist or vicarious striver as a parent.
What does striver mean?
One who strives.
What part of speech is striver?
striver is commonly used as noun.