career

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One’s calling in life

   One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.

   • When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years, / Then they expect you to pick a career
2. 2

   The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one…

   The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.

   • Washington’s career as a soldier
   • This scandal could ruin his career.
   • He regretted focusing on his career to the exclusion of his family.
3. 3

   The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.

   • 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 […]
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   1. 4

      Speed.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      A jouster's path during a joust.

      • 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.
   3. 6

      A short gallop of a 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
   4. 7

      The flight of a hawk.

   5. 8

      A racecourse

      A racecourse; the ground run over.

      • to think of going back again the same career
   6. 9

      To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

      • The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
   7. 10

      Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a…

      Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity).

      • a career burglar
      • Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.
   8. 11

      Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”).

      • a career rapist

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