striver

English

Etymology

From strive +‎ -er.

Noun

striver (plural strivers)

1. One who strives.
   • 1984 December 22, Ingrid Sell, “Changing Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 4:

     I am angered not only by such bloodsucking selective memory, but also at another example of how gay "respectability"-strivers try to distance themselves from the nonconformists and fringe members of our movement.