career

[ kuh-reer ]

/ kəˈrɪər /

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noun

an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.

a person's progress or general course of action through life or through a phase of life, as in some profession or undertaking: His career as a soldier ended with the armistice.

success in a profession, occupation, etc.

a course, especially a swift one.

speed, especially full speed: The horse stumbled in full career.

Archaic. a charge at full speed.

verb (used without object)

to run or move rapidly along; go at full speed.

adjective

having or following a career; professional: a career diplomat.

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Origin of career

1525–35; < Middle French carriere < Old Provençal carriera literally, road < Late Latin carrāria ( via) vehicular (road), equivalent to Latin carr(us) wagon (see car¹) + -āria, feminine of -ārius -ary

SYNONYMS FOR career

2 vocation, calling, work, lifework, livelihood.

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careen career

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care attendant, care label, care package, care plan, careen, career, career girl, career woman, careerism, careerist, careers adviser

Example sentences from the Web for career

I always wanted to have a career like his—except for the stopping work thing.

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So looking at that and that at that time I was also pursuing my career—so there was something here.

Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire |William O’Connor |January 6, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.

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But as everyone knows, he went on to say—not once but many times—that that was the greatest error of his career by far.

Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game |Michael Tomasky |January 2, 2015 |DAILY BEAST

For nearly her entire life Beyoncé has been giving us her blood, sweat, and tears in her career.

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He would carry through this Linrock case; but even so, if he were not killed, his career would be ruined.

The Rustlers of Pecos County |Zane Grey
But this feeling, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only to plunge me lower in the dust.

Frankenstein |Mary Shelley
From that time on Austria, composed of three states in one, started on its career of a world power.

Bohemia under Hapsburg Misrule |Various
It was in turning little things like these to account, that Mr. Clay, in the earlier period of his career, was so remarkable.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V |Various
It was his fate to begin his career in an age of mediocrities and to finish it in an almost single combat with the giant.

The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) |John Holland Rose

British Dictionary definitions for career

career

/ (kəˈrɪə) /

noun

a path or progress through life or history

a profession or occupation chosen as one's life's work

(modifier) having or following a career as specified a career diplomat

a course or path, esp a swift or headlong one

verb

(intr) to move swiftly along; rush in an uncontrolled way

Word Origin for career

C16: from French carrière, from Late Latin carrāria carriage road, from Latin carrus two-wheeled wagon, car

Idioms and Phrases with career

career

see checkered career.

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career

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verb (used without object)

adjective

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