Career

/kəˈɹɪə/ · noun

Meaning

One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time..

Definitions by Sense

1. One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.
2. The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
3. The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
4. (archaic) Speed.
5. A jouster's path during a joust.
6. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
7. (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
8. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

Example Sentences

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years, / Then they expect you to pick a career

Washington’s career as a soldier

This scandal could ruin his career.

He regretted focusing on his career to the exclusion of his family.

Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies.

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 […]

What rein can hold licentious wickedness When down the hill he holds his fierce career?

when a horse is running in his full career

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Word Forms

• careers
• careering
• careered

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