Meaning of career | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously and/or over a long period of time.
2. race
3. The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
4. run (act of running)
5. Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework: career diplomats; a career criminal.
6. The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
7. run
8. To move forward at high speed, often with minimal control: "that lordly car ... How smoothly it ran. In what style they had come careering along the country roads!" (James Joyce).
9. Speed.
   archaic
10. college degree, major, main course of study
11. Activity pursued as a livelihood:art, business, calling, craft, employment, job, line, métier, occupation, profession, pursuit, trade, vocation, work.
12. A jouster's path during a joust.
13. to move rapidly and dangerously. The brakes failed and the car careered down the hill. voortsnel يَعْدو، يَنْدَفِ بِسُرْعَه препускам disparar řítit se rasen suse; fræse ορμώ ανεξέλεγκτα ir a toda velocidad tormama با سعت زیاد و بی اختیار حرکت کردن kiitää aller à toute vitesse לָנוּע בִּמְהיִרוּת पूर्ण गति से चलना, दौड्ना ludo juriti vágtat meluncur æða, þjóta andare di gran carriera 疾走する 돌진하다 nuriedėti drāzties meluncur voortdaveren rase, suse, kjøre i vill fartpędzić په ډير سرعت سره حركت كو...
14. A short gallop of a horse.
    obsolete
15. profesión.
16. The flight of a hawk.
17. A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.
18. A racecourse; the ground run over.
    obsolete
19. A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
20. Speed: "My hasting days fly on with full career" (John Milton).
21. a path or progress through life or history
22. a profession or occupation chosen as one's life's work

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Examples

“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”

“It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.”

“These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.”

“It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.”

“Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble”

“to think of going back again the same career”

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