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Career
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- 1 Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity). not-comparable
"a career burglar"
- 2 Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”). broadly, not-comparable
"a career rapist"
- 1 One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously and/or over a long period of time.
"When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years, / Then they expect you to pick a career"
- 2 the general progression of your working or professional life wordnet
- 3 The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
"Washington’s career as a soldier"
- 4 the particular occupation for which you are trained wordnet
- 5 The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
"As I explored the possibility of a library science path, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again […]"
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- 6 Speed. archaic
"What rein can hold licentious wickedness When down the hill he holds his fierce career?"
- 7 A jouster's path during a joust.
"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."
- 8 A short gallop of a horse. obsolete
"It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse."
- 9 The flight of a hawk.
- 10 A racecourse; the ground run over. obsolete
"to think of going back again the same career"
- 1 To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
"The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge."
- 2 move headlong at high speed wordnet
Etymology
Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.
Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.
Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.
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