Meaning of professional suicide | Babel Free

Definitions

An action by a person that is expected to ruin their own career.

countable, idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

““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.””

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