Workaholic
Workaholic
noun uk/ˌwɜː.kəˈhɒl.ɪk/ us/ˌwɝː.kəˈhɑː.lɪk/
-A person who works a lot of the time and finds it difficult not to work.
-A person who feels compelled to work excessively.
Medical condition
-A person suffering from work addiction. The supposed cause is an impaired rewards system in the brain causing the subject to unconsciously want to overwork even to the point of making his/her life miserable.
ex:
A self-confessed workaholic, Nathan can't remember when he last had a holiday.
Nathan is a real workaholic who almost never takes time off.
Nathan is such a workaholic that he would put a stakhanovite to shame.