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English

Etymology

Mid 16th century, from carrière (a road or racecourse), from carriera, based on carrus ‘wheeled vehicle.’

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-career.ogg


Noun

  1. One's calling in life; a person's occupation.
  2. An individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.
  3. A jouster|jouster's path during a joust.
  4. * 1819: w:Sir Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott, w:Ivanhoe|Ivanhoe
  5. *: These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.


Translations

  • Catalan: carrera
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|kariéra|f}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|carrière|f}},
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: {{t+|fr|carrière|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Karriere|f}}
  • Hebrew: קריירה (qariera)
  • Norwegian: {{t-|no|karriere|m}}

Verb

  1. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way
  2. : The car careered across the road and went through a hedge.
  3. speed
  4. : in full career


Synonyms

To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way


Translations

et:career fa:career fr:career io:career it:career ku:career hu:career pl:career ru:career fi:career ta:career te:career vi:career zh:career

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Career \Ca*reer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Careered 3; p. pr. &
vb. n. Careering]
To move or run rapidly.
[1913 Webster]

Careering gayly over the curling waves. --W. Irving.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Career \Ca*reer"\, n. [F. carri[`e]re race course, high road,
street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car.]
1. A race course: the ground run over.
[1913 Webster]

To go back again the same career. --Sir P.
Sidney.
[1913 Webster]

2. A running; full speed; a rapid course.
[1913 Webster]

When a horse is running in his full career.
--Wilkins.
[1913 Webster]

3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a
particular part or calling in life, or in some special
undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is
of a public character; as, Washington's career as a
soldier.
[1913 Webster]

An impartial view of his whole career. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet career
n 1: the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn: calling,
vocation]
2: the general progression of your working or professional
life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he
had a long career in the law" [syn: life history]
v : move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the
road"; "The mob careered through the streets"
Moby Dictionary
Brownian movement , accomplished , advance , advancement , advancing ,
angular motion , art , ascending , ascent , at concert pitch ,
axial motion , backflowing , backing , backward motion , blunder , bolt ,
business , calling , careen , career building , careerism , chase ,
climbing , clip , coached , conversant , course , craft , current , dart ,
dash , descending , descent , downward motion , drift , driftage ,
ebbing , employment , falter , finished , flight , fling , flounce ,
flounder , flow , flux , fly , forward motion , forwardal , forwarding ,
furtherance , furthering , gait , game , go-ahead , handicraft , haste ,
hasten , headway , hie , hump , hump it , hurry , hurtle , initiate ,
initiated , job , labor , lick , lifework , line , line of business ,
line of work , livelihood , lurch , make haste , march , metier ,
mission , mounting , mystery , number , oblique motion , occupation ,
ongoing , onrush , onward course , pace , passage , pitch ,
pitch and plunge , plunge , plunging , post , practice , practiced ,
prepared , primed , profession , professional , progress , progression ,
progressiveness , promotion , pursuit , race , racket , radial motion ,
random motion , rate , reel , reflowing , refluence , reflux ,
regression , retrogression , rising , rock , roll , rolling , rolling on ,
run , rush , scamper , scoot , scour , scramble , scud , scurry , scuttle ,
seethe , set , shoot , sideward motion , sinking , skedaddle , skilled ,
soaring , specialization , specialty , speed , stagger , step ,
step on it , sternway , stream , stride , struggle , stumble , subsiding ,
sway , swing , tear , technical , thrash about , toss , toss and tumble ,
toss and turn , totter , trade , trained , traject , trajet , travel ,
tread , trend , tumble , upward motion , vocation , walk , walk of life ,
wallop , wallow , way , welter , work , zoom


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