Career

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.
  • noun. The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements.
  • noun. A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
  • noun. Speed.
  • adjective. Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework.
  • intransitive verb. To move forward at high speed, often with minimal control.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The ground on which a race is run; a race-course; hence, course; path; way.
  • noun. A charge or run at full speed, as in justing.
  • noun. General course of action or movement; procedure; course of proceeding; a specific course of action or occupation forming the object of one's life: as, “honour's fair career,” Dryden.
  • noun. [Sometimes used absolutely to signify a definite or conspicuous career of some kind: as, a man with a career before him.]
  • noun. In the manège, a place inclosed with a barrier, in which to run the ring.
  • noun. In falconry, a flight or tour of the hawk, about 120 yards.
  • To move or run rapidly, as if in a race or charge.
  • noun. A prison; a lock-up; especially, one in a German school or university.
  • noun. One of the 8 to 12 stalls, closed with bars, from which races were started in a Roman circus. They were arranged with slanting axes in order not to give an unfair advantage to any competitor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To move or run rapidly.
  • noun. A race course: the ground run over.
  • noun. A running; full speed; a rapid course.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The flight of a hawk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
  • noun. An individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.
  • noun. speed
  • noun. A jouster's path during a joust.
  • verb. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the particular occupation for which you are trained
  • noun. the general progression of your working or professional life
  • verb. move headlong at high speed
  • Word Usage
    "I know that when I'm advising students, and they are fretting about career choices, and I ask them, what do you *want* to do with your life -- what do you think will make you happy, most of them, I'd say maybe 70% of them, give me this blank stare: as if *happiness* and *career* could have nothing to do with each other."
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