n.

1. 1. A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.
   2. The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements: an officer with a distinguished career; a teacher in the midst of a long career.
2. A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
3. Speed: “My hasting days fly on with full career” (John Milton).

adj.

Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework: career diplomats; a career criminal.

intr.v., -reered, -reer·ing, -reers.

To move or run at full speed; rush. See Usage Note at careen.

[French carrière, from Old French, racecourse, from Old Provençal carriera, street, from Medieval Latin (via) carrāria, (road) for carts, feminine of carrārius, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon.]

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noun

Activity pursued as a livelihood: art, business, calling, craft, employment, job, line, métier, occupation, profession, pursuit, trade, vocation, work. Slang racket. Archaic employ. See action/inaction.

n

Definition: course
Antonyms: diversion

n

Definition: occupation
Antonyms: amusement, avocation, entertainment, recreation

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IN BRIEF: The way one earns ones living.

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Quotes:

"He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong." - George Eliot

"The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent." - Edward M. Forster

"Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?" - Joan Manley

"The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years." - C. Wright Mills

"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them." - John Dos Passos

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." - Gloria Steinem

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Common misspelling(s) of career

• carreer

Dansk (Danish)
n. - karriere, livsforløb, livsstilling, flugt, bane
v. intr. - fare afsted, race
adj. - udsendt, lønnet

idioms:

• career structure    karrieremønster

Nederlands (Dutch)
carrière, loopbaan, beroep(s-), snelle vaart, voortdenderen

Français (French)
n. - carrière, métier, scolarité
v. intr. - entrer/sortir à toute vitesse, rouler à pleins gaz, s'emballer
adj. - de carrière, de carrière (un diplomate), de métier (un soldat)

idioms:

• career structure    structure de carrière, plan de carrière

Deutsch (German)
n. - Karriere, Laufbahn, Beruf, Rasen
v. - rasen
adj. - Karriere...

idioms:

• career structure    Beförderungsmuster

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σταδιοδρομία, καριέρα, ορμή
v. - κινούμαι γρήγορα και ανεξέλεγκτα, ορμώ

idioms:

• career structure    βαθμίδες υπηρεσιακής εξέλιξης

Italiano (Italian)
correre all'impazzata, andare a tutto gas, correre a tutta birra, sbandare, carriera, andatura veloce

idioms:

• career structure    sistema di avanzamento di carriera

Português (Portuguese)
n. - carreira (f), corrida (f)
v. - correr

idioms:

• career structure    estrutura (f) profissional

Русский (Russian)
нестись, карьера

idioms:

• career structure    путь продвижения в профессии

Español (Spanish)
n. - profesión, carrera
v. intr. - correr a toda velocidad
adj. - de profesión o carrera

idioms:

• career structure    sistema de carrera

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - yrke, full fart
v. - ila, galoppera

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
事业, 速度, 生涯, 猛冲, 飞跑, 职业的, 专业的

idioms:

• career structure    职业结构

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 事業, 速度, 生涯
v. intr. - 猛衝, 飛跑
adj. - 職業的, 專業的

idioms:

• career structure    職業結構

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 경력, 직업, 출세
v. intr. - 질주하다
adj. - 직업적인, 평생의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 職業, 経歴, 生涯, 出世, 疾走
adj. - プロの, 職業的な
v. - 疾走する

idioms:

• career structure    公認の昇進パターン

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حرفه, مهنه, صنعه, وظيفه (فعل) ينطلق بسرعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קריירה, מקצוע, ריצה, מהירות, דהירה‬
v. intr. - ‮התרוצץ, דהר במהירות‬
adj. - ‮מקצועי, של קריירה‬

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