career
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.
Inflected forms:
form: careers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: careers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: careering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: careered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: careered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.
pos: noun
examples: When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years, / Then they expect you to pick a career
gloss: The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
gloss: Speed.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
gloss: A jouster's path during a joust.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A short gallop of a horse.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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
gloss: The flight of a hawk.
pos: noun
gloss: A racecourse; the ground run over.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: to think of going back again the same career
gloss: To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
pos: verb
examples: The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
He likens the story of his 20s to “a fully fuelled jumbo jet just reaching take-off point and having to slam on the brakes. You’ve got this enormous bloody thing careering off the end of the runway, through the fence, through the house next door, bursting into flames and me crawling out and scraping my wounds for 10 years. I won't be flying that one again.”
However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.
This secondary collision, head-on with a closing speed of 142mph, caused the DVT to veer off to the left. Many of the coaches behind it overturned and careered into an adjacent field.
gloss: Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”).
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: a career rapist
Derived words: aftercareer
career break
career change
career changer
career criminal
career day
career-defining
careerer
career expo
career fair
career girl
career guide
careerism
careerist
careerless
careerlike
career-limiting move
careerlong
careerman
career man
career politician
careership
careers officer
career suicide
careerwise
career woman
careerwoman
dual career couple
make a career of
make a career out of
midcareer
multicareer
noncareer
portfolio career
postcareer
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