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career
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| career girl
| career man
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun career has 2 senses
- career(n = noun.act) calling, vocation - the particular occupation for which you are trained; Array is a kind of business, job, line, line of work, occupation
- career(n = noun.act) life history - the general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law" is a kind of advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression
has particulars: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, lifework, walk, walk of life, business life, professional life
Derived form noun careerist1
Verb career has 1 sense
- career(v = verb.motion) Array - move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets" is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
career, n. [F. carrière race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car.].
- A race course: the ground run over. [1913 Webster]"To go back again the same career." [1913 Webster]
- A running; full speed; a rapid course. [1913 Webster]"When a horse is running in his full career." [1913 Webster]
- 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." [1913 Webster]
- The flight of a hawk. [1913 Webster]
career, v. i.
To move or run rapidly. [1913 Webster]
"Careering gayly over the curling waves."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
career, n. & v.
--n.
1 a one's advancement through life, esp. in a profession. b the progress through history of a group or institution.
2 a profession or occupation, esp. as offering advancement.
3 (attrib.) a pursuing or wishing to pursue a career (career woman). b working permanently in a specified profession (career diplomat).
4 swift course; impetus (in full career).
--v.intr.
1 move or swerve about wildly.
2 go swiftly.
--n.
1 a one's advancement through life, esp. in a profession. b the progress through history of a group or institution.
2 a profession or occupation, esp. as offering advancement.
3 (attrib.) a pursuing or wishing to pursue a career (career woman). b working permanently in a specified profession (career diplomat).
4 swift course; impetus (in full career).
--v.intr.
1 move or swerve about wildly.
2 go swiftly.
Etymology
F carri{egrave}re f. It. carriera ult. f. L carrus CAR
THESAURUS
career
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, zoomROGET THESAURUS
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Business
N business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.Conduct
N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.
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