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A person whose job is to be seen having a job-free life.
means A person prominent in fashionable high society, known mainly for attending and hosting glamorous social events rather than for work or achievement.
from A 20th-century American coinage, built by bolting the suffix '-ite' (meaning 'a member or follower of,' as in 'socialite' cousins like 'Trotskyite' or 'suburbanite') onto 'social.' It first appeared in print in the 1920s, in the gossip-hungry pages of Time magazine, as a snappy label for the idle rich who mattered only because everyone agreed they mattered.
- core skill
- Making attendance look like an achievement
- currency
- Guest lists, not bank accounts
- origin
- Coined by Time magazine in the 1920s
- paradox
- Famous for being almost famous