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career
/kəˈɹɪɹ/
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What does career mean?
noun
- One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.
- The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
- The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
More meanings (8)
noun
- A jouster's path during a joust.
- The flight of a hawk.
- (archaic) Speed.
- (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
verb
- To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
adjective
- Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity).
- Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”).
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈɹɪɹ/
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But Chauvelin was not the man to trouble himself about these social amenities, which he called mere incidents in his diplomatic career.
Sharers of Wilfred’s dangers and adversity, they remained, as they had a right to expect, the partakers of his more prosperous career.
More book examples (3)
It was one of the many little human documents which had been unfolded to him during his long career as a physician.
There is nothing very striking or peculiar about my career as a freeman, when viewed apart from my life as a slave.
I find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure.