Aftercareer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The career that follows a particular experience or stage in a person's life; later career. dated
"In a youth entering life under the protection of such relations, who could have anticipated the future dramatist and poet laureat […]? In his after career, his early connections with the puritans, and the principles of his kinsmen during the civil wars and usurpation, were often made subjects of reproach […]"
Synonyms
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More examples"In a youth entering life under the protection of such relations, who could have anticipated the future dramatist and poet laureat […]? In his after career, his early connections with the puritans, and the principles of his kinsmen during the civil wars and usurpation, were often made subjects of reproach […]"
Etymology
From after- + career.
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