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career
[ kuh-reer ]
noun
- an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework:
He sought a career as a lawyer.
- a person's progress or general course of action through life or through a phase of life, as in some profession or undertaking:
His career as a soldier ended with the armistice.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- success in a profession, occupation, etc.
- a course, especially a swift one.
- speed, especially full speed:
The horse stumbled in full career.
- Archaic. a charge at full speed.
verb (used without object)
- to run or move rapidly along; go at full speed.
adjective
- having or following a career; professional:
a career diplomat.
career
/ əˈɪə /
noun
- a path or progress through life or history
- a profession or occupation chosen as one's life's work
- modifier having or following a career as specified
a career diplomat
- a course or path, esp a swift or headlong one
verb
- intr to move swiftly along; rush in an uncontrolled way
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of career1
Idioms and Phrases
see checkered career .Example Sentences
The single most significant piece of career advice Diego Boneta ever received came from none other than Tom Cruise — and it wasn’t a tip about how to jump off airplanes.
As the couple continued raising their four children and focusing on their careers, they decided to create the roles they were looking for themselves.
“These measures appear to be an attempt to cajole career officials at the Division to leave voluntarily in order to fundamentally transform its work,” the senators wrote.
She realized, Acharya said, she wasn’t ready to make the commitment or accept the all-encompassing sacrifice needed to forge a professional career in music.
But a decade into Trump's presidential career, it's getting hard to prop up the illusion that he's still an outsider fighting to get enough access to expose the "deep state."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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