About The Word Career

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Career

Career Meaning & Definition
Career Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Career?

[n] the general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law"
[n] the particular occupation for which you are trained
[v] move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Career: calling | life history | vocation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Career: accomplished | advance | advancement | advancing | angular motion | art | ascending | ascent | at concert pitch | axial motion | backflowing | backing | backward motion | blunder | bolt | Brownian movement | 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 | zoom

See Also | advance | advancement | business | business life | forward motion | go | job | lifework | line | line of work | locomote | move | occupation | onward motion | professional life | progress | progression | specialisation | specialism | speciality | specialization | specialty | travel | walk | walk of life

Career In Webster's Dictionary

\Ca*reer"\, n. [F. carri[`e]re race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See {Car}.] 1. A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. --Wilkins. 3. 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. An impartial view of his whole career. --Macaulay. 4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk.
\Ca*reer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Careered} 3; p. pr. & vb. n. {Careering}] To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. --W. Irving.

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