professional suicide

English

Noun

professional suicide (countable and uncountable, plural professional suicides)

  1. (idiomatic) An action by a person that is expected to ruin their own career.
    • 2019 October 4, Joe Davidson, “Perspective | Federal whistleblowers would do it again, even after retaliation and ‘professional suicide’”, in Washington Post‎, retrieved 15 January 2021:
      “As a rule, whistleblowing is an act of professional suicide,” said Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project that defends whistleblowers. The threat of retaliation “exponentially increases when Trump calls you a spy.”

Synonyms
  • career-limiting behavior (euphemism)
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