Definition of career in English:

career

noun kəˈrɪəkəˈrɪr

1An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
he seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father
Example sentencesExamples
- After 11 years of internal medicine and cardiology, he opted for a career in occupational medicine.
- After all, most professionals choose their career; they act under their own volition.
- You should also contact your local careers office/centre for information and advice on careers and learning opportunities.
- You decide to take on new opportunities that enhance your career.
- In keeping with tradition, our February issue focuses on careers and opportunities.
- The son of a wig maker, Lallemand saw a military career as an opportunity for social advancement.
- Visitors will be able to pick and choose from the hundreds of available careers and training opportunities.
- This could benefit the stream of outgoing students in their hunt for new careers and novel opportunities.
- As a young man David McInroy had to come to terms with the fact he was not destined for a career as a professional footballer.
- Its goal is to get Waterloo students thinking about the opportunities a career in the tax field creates for them.
- She knew she would be retiring shortly from the Royal Ballet and welcomed the opportunity to diversify her career.
- There are some careers where a significant surname is all you need - being an aristocrat, for example.
- Teaching is recognized as a career with unique opportunities and satisfying experiences.
- This symposium will discuss some of the careers and opportunities in biotechnology.
- Now, he says, he wants to give other youngsters an opportunity of a glittering career, too.
- Having more control over their careers and financial opportunities is within their grasp.
- Students were also given the opportunity to discuss careers with the regiment team.
- Because people now tend to have multiple careers, this transition period could come at any age.
- It kind of solidifies the buzz around your career and makes more opportunities open to you.
- So Jan seized the opportunity for a new career as a tour manager, helping groups of tourists get the most out of their holidays.
Synonyms
profession, occupation, vocation, calling, employment, job, day job, line, line of work, walk of life, position, post, sphere
French métier
1. 1.1 The time spent by a person in a career.
  the end of a distinguished career in the Royal Navy
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has had a distinguished career, helping to police the Bradford riots and even fulfilling state ceremonial duties.
  Both had distinguished careers on the playing fields with Claremorris.
  The earlier part of his career was spent working in Central Africa and Europe.
  They are experienced campaigners coming to terms with a fast-shifting landscape towards the end of their distinguished careers.
  After two careers spent battling each other in the top arenas of the world, this is the final showdown.
  His distinguished career in the Army saw him attain the rank of Captain, and he opted for early retirement some years ago.
  I would quite like Mr P-A to get a little further along in his career before he hits old age, but if he has to pass the flame to the next generation, so be it.
  Much of his career is spent working on physics and non-euclidean geometry.
  He has in fact partially succeeded in breaking it down during his distinguished career.
  It is not much of a break when you are 32 and considered to have reached the twilight of a distinguished career.
  Born in a middle-class family, this talented player started his career at the age of 13.
  Peter had a distinguished career in the second world war, taking part in the Normandy invasion and serving in the Far East.
  But Ross and Beamish, who had both enjoyed distinguished careers in the whisky industry, had a plan.
  The two most prominent painters of this period, Adam Elsheimer and Johann Liss, both spent much of their careers outside Germany.
  It is also a tribute to a distinguished career during which Naipaul never lost sight of his vocation.
  The Vulcan and the Victor had long and distinguished careers.
  At this point in his career Heyting began to follow the same road as his parents by beginning a career as a secondary school teacher.
  Both have had long and distinguished careers and I wish them well in their retirement from local government.
  He lives in Sedgley Park and has spent much of his career teaching in secondary schools in Salford and Manchester.
  Most of his career was spent working in nuclear weapons research.
2. 1.2 The progress through history of an institution, organization, etc.
  the court has had a chequered career
  Example sentencesExamples
  The men who thus set in motion the career of the court which is today celebrating its one hundred birthday were all immigrants.
  Smith McNell's, the old down-town restaurant and hotel, will change hands shortly for the first time in its long career.
  We will, however, endeavor to portray with as much accuracy as possible the career of the organization.
  Synonyms
  existence, life, progress, course, progression, passage, path
3. 1.3as modifier Working permanently in or committed to a particular profession.
  a career diplomat
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many more black career professionals, he says, are taking up the game for business purposes.
  From their brief entries most of them seem to be career professionals, perhaps a reflection of their privileged private education.
  The army's most striking characteristic was its professionalism and the apolitical views of its career commanders.
  I have one son who is a major in the US Army, he is a career professional.
  But the carefully modulated tones of this career diplomat were not the red meat that Fleet Street desired.
  According to Gerdjikov, such statements showed that the person making them was not a career diplomat.
  Most career pilots didn't get into the profession to end up as cowboys.
  The career diplomat made a brief and humble statement before taking the oath of office.
  A career diplomat, he accepted a series of postings on the Continent, and took his young daughter with him.
  He's a career security professional who deplores the leaks of classified material to the press.
  As a career diplomat, one might well expect him to tilt the British way.
  Hannibal is the father figure, the career military man, the only one to attend West Point and it takes some serious time to rise to the rank of Colonel.
  He is a career diplomat, serving many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.
  One of them is a marketing executive of a tobacco company and the other a career diplomat and former colleague of the PCB chief.
  He is no disinterested career diplomat - he's a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind.
  The next layer down is the permanent career official who works within a government department and carries out government policies.
  The career diplomat, elected on a rota basis, promised she would be impartial.
  Perhaps you are just bitter that he is a nationally respected professor while you are just a career student.
  Hempel was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else.
  CIA officers are career professionals who work for the president.
  Synonyms
  professional, permanent, full-time, committed
4. 1.4as modifier (of a woman) interested in pursuing a profession rather than devoting all her time to childcare and housekeeping.
  a driven career woman
  Example sentencesExamples
  According to researchers, the increasing numbers of career women is the main reason.
  They are career women whose jobs keep them, their families and their bodies in the public eye.
  Much attention has been focused on career women who leave the work force to rear children.
  When Barbie was in her prime, girls were taught to be career women, to be men's equals.
  Both were career women juggling the pressures of work and a family.
  One is made up largely of deprived and feckless girls while the other is dominated by highly educated and successful career women.
  It's easier, she believes, to become a career woman later in life than a mother.
  The point I wish to make is a sad one, but nevertheless, one that puts some of us career women to shame.
  The 1980s and 1990s were decades of progress for western career women and working mothers.
  One in four career women would undergo cosmetic surgery if they were more successful as a result of it, a survey found.
  Young career women are more likely to demand things like flextime and less overtime from employers.
  I like being the smart, intelligent career woman who is respected by her peers.
  There's the victim, and the schemer, the Connecticut white lady, and the career girl.
  All are career women, although it hasn't come easy and is still not guaranteed.
  They gave the career woman Miranda a baby that she couldn't cope with.
  School and college students, housewives, career women and senior citizens participated in the meet.
  I wasn't even a wife, and I certainly wasn't the hip, urban career girl I had been, either.
  She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power.
  British career women, she said, no longer feel they need to join an organisation to fight for equality with men.
  But a multitude of young career women in Shanghai would be enraged if such a phrase were thrown in their faces.

verb kəˈrɪəkəˈrɪr

no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
the coach careered across the road and went through a hedge
Example sentencesExamples
- The car careered into a bank on one side of the road rebounding off the bank and throwing both Jarrott and his companion out of the vehicle.
- He remembered the car careering off the road, ploughing through a hedge and rolling over a couple of times.
- He rose but careered wildly into the ropes and his tenure as champion was over.
- The car careered off the road and overturned on a number of occasions.
- The operation simulated a high speed train - which had jumped a red light - careering into a car on a level crossing.
- Twelve miles later, a tyre blew and the lorry careered off the road and into a tree.
- However the longer route has to be taken as they won't fit down the side of the house this way, so it's out through one gate and in through another hoping not to meet a car careering down the road in the process.
- It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
- The vehicle careered off the road, and landed on its side in a field.
- He was delivering a truckload of glass panes when he careered off the road between Chiseldon and Liddington yesterday.
- Three men were rushed to hospital after a stock car careered off a track and ploughed into two of them them during a Sunday race meeting.
- A police spokesman said the car careered off the road and crashed into a small roadside stone wall before overturning.
- The car careered down the road and hit a chestnut tree head-on.
- A woman was killed and a man injured yesterday when their car careered off the road and smashed into a tree.
- It careered onto the median and struck the car, bursting into flames.
- A judge at Bradford Crown Court yesterday watched amateur video footage of the Fiesta as it sped along the road before careering into crowds of people lining the race route.
- This simulated emergency braking and showed how, without ESP the car careered all over the road with much more potential to cause damage.
- The tires screeched nosily on the road as it careered across going into the path of other cars.
- High speed cost a new driver his life when his car careered out of control and struck a tree, a North Yorkshire inquest was told.
- He careered into seven parked cars, at one point mounting the side of a vehicle and driving on only two wheels, before coming to a halt.
Synonyms
rush, hurtle, streak, shoot, race, bolt, dash, speed, run, gallop, stampede, cannon, careen, whizz, buzz, zoom, flash, blast, charge, hare, fly, wing, pelt, scurry, scud, go like the wind
informal belt, scoot, scorch, tear, skedaddle, zap, zip, whip, burn rubber, go like a bat out of hell
British informal bomb, bucket, shift
North American informal hightail, clip, boogie

Phrases

in full career

archaic At full speed.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such stoppers are invaluable, for without them it is not easy to stop a big full-rigged ship in full career without doing any damage or carrying something away.
- Our centre had even captured the third enemy line, while the army on the left wing was in full career and now miles away to the west.
- At his heels follows the Dog, outstretched in full career.
- They had accordingly made their way back across the mountains, and down the rivers, and were in full career for St. Louis, when thus suddenly interrupted.
- The Indian again came in sight, and, in full career, rushed towards him, passed him, and wheeling halted his horse.

Origin

Mid 16th century (denoting a road or racecourse): from French carrière, from Italian carriera, based on Latin carrus 'wheeled vehicle'.

The core idea behind the various meanings of career is that of progressing along a course of some kind. Based on Latin carrus, ‘wheeled vehicle’ (see car), career was first used in English to mean both ‘a racecourse’ and ‘a short gallop at full speed, a charge’. From these developed the modern use, for the stages in a person's professional employment, the course of their working life. The verb use, ‘to rush headlong, to hurtle’, preserves the old sense.

Rhymes

adhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre

Definition of career in US English:

career

nounkəˈrirkəˈrɪr

1An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
Example sentencesExamples
- Because people now tend to have multiple careers, this transition period could come at any age.
- After all, most professionals choose their career; they act under their own volition.
- Having more control over their careers and financial opportunities is within their grasp.
- Its goal is to get Waterloo students thinking about the opportunities a career in the tax field creates for them.
- She knew she would be retiring shortly from the Royal Ballet and welcomed the opportunity to diversify her career.
- There are some careers where a significant surname is all you need - being an aristocrat, for example.
- Students were also given the opportunity to discuss careers with the regiment team.
- You decide to take on new opportunities that enhance your career.
- You should also contact your local careers office/centre for information and advice on careers and learning opportunities.
- In keeping with tradition, our February issue focuses on careers and opportunities.
- This could benefit the stream of outgoing students in their hunt for new careers and novel opportunities.
- After 11 years of internal medicine and cardiology, he opted for a career in occupational medicine.
- Now, he says, he wants to give other youngsters an opportunity of a glittering career, too.
- So Jan seized the opportunity for a new career as a tour manager, helping groups of tourists get the most out of their holidays.
- It kind of solidifies the buzz around your career and makes more opportunities open to you.
- The son of a wig maker, Lallemand saw a military career as an opportunity for social advancement.
- As a young man David McInroy had to come to terms with the fact he was not destined for a career as a professional footballer.
- Teaching is recognized as a career with unique opportunities and satisfying experiences.
- This symposium will discuss some of the careers and opportunities in biotechnology.
- Visitors will be able to pick and choose from the hundreds of available careers and training opportunities.
Synonyms
profession, occupation, vocation, calling, employment, job, day job, line, line of work, walk of life, position, post, sphere
1. 1.1 The time spent by a person while committed to a particular profession.
  the end of a distinguished career in the navy
  Example sentencesExamples
  I would quite like Mr P-A to get a little further along in his career before he hits old age, but if he has to pass the flame to the next generation, so be it.
  His distinguished career in the Army saw him attain the rank of Captain, and he opted for early retirement some years ago.
  The earlier part of his career was spent working in Central Africa and Europe.
  Both have had long and distinguished careers and I wish them well in their retirement from local government.
  But Ross and Beamish, who had both enjoyed distinguished careers in the whisky industry, had a plan.
  Much of his career is spent working on physics and non-euclidean geometry.
  At this point in his career Heyting began to follow the same road as his parents by beginning a career as a secondary school teacher.
  They are experienced campaigners coming to terms with a fast-shifting landscape towards the end of their distinguished careers.
  Peter had a distinguished career in the second world war, taking part in the Normandy invasion and serving in the Far East.
  The two most prominent painters of this period, Adam Elsheimer and Johann Liss, both spent much of their careers outside Germany.
  He has in fact partially succeeded in breaking it down during his distinguished career.
  He lives in Sedgley Park and has spent much of his career teaching in secondary schools in Salford and Manchester.
  Both had distinguished careers on the playing fields with Claremorris.
  Most of his career was spent working in nuclear weapons research.
  The Vulcan and the Victor had long and distinguished careers.
  Born in a middle-class family, this talented player started his career at the age of 13.
  It is also a tribute to a distinguished career during which Naipaul never lost sight of his vocation.
  It is not much of a break when you are 32 and considered to have reached the twilight of a distinguished career.
  He has had a distinguished career, helping to police the Bradford riots and even fulfilling state ceremonial duties.
  After two careers spent battling each other in the top arenas of the world, this is the final showdown.
2. 1.2 The progress through history of an institution, organization, etc.
  the court has had a checkered career
  Example sentencesExamples
  Smith McNell's, the old down-town restaurant and hotel, will change hands shortly for the first time in its long career.
  We will, however, endeavor to portray with as much accuracy as possible the career of the organization.
  The men who thus set in motion the career of the court which is today celebrating its one hundred birthday were all immigrants.
  Synonyms
  existence, life, progress, course, progression, passage, path
3. 1.3as modifier Working permanently in or committed to a particular profession.
  a career diplomat
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps you are just bitter that he is a nationally respected professor while you are just a career student.
  The career diplomat made a brief and humble statement before taking the oath of office.
  CIA officers are career professionals who work for the president.
  The army's most striking characteristic was its professionalism and the apolitical views of its career commanders.
  He's a career security professional who deplores the leaks of classified material to the press.
  Hannibal is the father figure, the career military man, the only one to attend West Point and it takes some serious time to rise to the rank of Colonel.
  A career diplomat, he accepted a series of postings on the Continent, and took his young daughter with him.
  I have one son who is a major in the US Army, he is a career professional.
  As a career diplomat, one might well expect him to tilt the British way.
  The next layer down is the permanent career official who works within a government department and carries out government policies.
  One of them is a marketing executive of a tobacco company and the other a career diplomat and former colleague of the PCB chief.
  He is a career diplomat, serving many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.
  He is no disinterested career diplomat - he's a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind.
  But the carefully modulated tones of this career diplomat were not the red meat that Fleet Street desired.
  The career diplomat, elected on a rota basis, promised she would be impartial.
  According to Gerdjikov, such statements showed that the person making them was not a career diplomat.
  Many more black career professionals, he says, are taking up the game for business purposes.
  From their brief entries most of them seem to be career professionals, perhaps a reflection of their privileged private education.
  Hempel was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else.
  Most career pilots didn't get into the profession to end up as cowboys.
  Synonyms
  professional, permanent, full-time, committed
4. 1.4as modifier (of a woman) pursuing a profession outside of the home.
  Example sentencesExamples
  According to researchers, the increasing numbers of career women is the main reason.
  When Barbie was in her prime, girls were taught to be career women, to be men's equals.
  One is made up largely of deprived and feckless girls while the other is dominated by highly educated and successful career women.
  It's easier, she believes, to become a career woman later in life than a mother.
  But a multitude of young career women in Shanghai would be enraged if such a phrase were thrown in their faces.
  One in four career women would undergo cosmetic surgery if they were more successful as a result of it, a survey found.
  All are career women, although it hasn't come easy and is still not guaranteed.
  Both were career women juggling the pressures of work and a family.
  I like being the smart, intelligent career woman who is respected by her peers.
  The 1980s and 1990s were decades of progress for western career women and working mothers.
  There's the victim, and the schemer, the Connecticut white lady, and the career girl.
  She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power.
  I wasn't even a wife, and I certainly wasn't the hip, urban career girl I had been, either.
  They gave the career woman Miranda a baby that she couldn't cope with.
  School and college students, housewives, career women and senior citizens participated in the meet.
  The point I wish to make is a sad one, but nevertheless, one that puts some of us career women to shame.
  Young career women are more likely to demand things like flextime and less overtime from employers.
  British career women, she said, no longer feel they need to join an organisation to fight for equality with men.
  They are career women whose jobs keep them, their families and their bodies in the public eye.
  Much attention has been focused on career women who leave the work force to rear children.

verbkəˈrirkəˈrɪr

no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction.
the car careered across the road and went through a hedge
Example sentencesExamples
- He careered into seven parked cars, at one point mounting the side of a vehicle and driving on only two wheels, before coming to a halt.
- It careered onto the median and struck the car, bursting into flames.
- However the longer route has to be taken as they won't fit down the side of the house this way, so it's out through one gate and in through another hoping not to meet a car careering down the road in the process.
- The tires screeched nosily on the road as it careered across going into the path of other cars.
- Three men were rushed to hospital after a stock car careered off a track and ploughed into two of them them during a Sunday race meeting.
- The car careered off the road and overturned on a number of occasions.
- This simulated emergency braking and showed how, without ESP the car careered all over the road with much more potential to cause damage.
- The vehicle careered off the road, and landed on its side in a field.
- Twelve miles later, a tyre blew and the lorry careered off the road and into a tree.
- He was delivering a truckload of glass panes when he careered off the road between Chiseldon and Liddington yesterday.
- He remembered the car careering off the road, ploughing through a hedge and rolling over a couple of times.
- He rose but careered wildly into the ropes and his tenure as champion was over.
- A police spokesman said the car careered off the road and crashed into a small roadside stone wall before overturning.
- A woman was killed and a man injured yesterday when their car careered off the road and smashed into a tree.
- It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
- The car careered into a bank on one side of the road rebounding off the bank and throwing both Jarrott and his companion out of the vehicle.
- A judge at Bradford Crown Court yesterday watched amateur video footage of the Fiesta as it sped along the road before careering into crowds of people lining the race route.
- The car careered down the road and hit a chestnut tree head-on.
- High speed cost a new driver his life when his car careered out of control and struck a tree, a North Yorkshire inquest was told.
- The operation simulated a high speed train - which had jumped a red light - careering into a car on a level crossing.
Synonyms
rush, hurtle, streak, shoot, race, bolt, dash, speed, run, gallop, stampede, cannon, careen, whizz, buzz, zoom, flash, blast, charge, hare, fly, wing, pelt, scurry, scud, go like the wind

Phrases

in full career

archaic At full speed.
Example sentencesExamples
- They had accordingly made their way back across the mountains, and down the rivers, and were in full career for St. Louis, when thus suddenly interrupted.
- Such stoppers are invaluable, for without them it is not easy to stop a big full-rigged ship in full career without doing any damage or carrying something away.
- At his heels follows the Dog, outstretched in full career.
- Our centre had even captured the third enemy line, while the army on the left wing was in full career and now miles away to the west.
- The Indian again came in sight, and, in full career, rushed towards him, passed him, and wheeling halted his horse.

Origin

Mid 16th century (denoting a road or racecourse): from French carrière, from Italian carriera, based on Latin carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’.

单词	career
释义	Definition of career in English: career noun kəˈrɪəkəˈrɪr 1An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress. he seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father Example sentencesExamples After 11 years of internal medicine and cardiology, he opted for a career in occupational medicine. After all, most professionals choose their career; they act under their own volition. You should also contact your local careers office/centre for information and advice on careers and learning opportunities. You decide to take on new opportunities that enhance your career. In keeping with tradition, our February issue focuses on careers and opportunities. The son of a wig maker, Lallemand saw a military career as an opportunity for social advancement. Visitors will be able to pick and choose from the hundreds of available careers and training opportunities. This could benefit the stream of outgoing students in their hunt for new careers and novel opportunities. As a young man David McInroy had to come to terms with the fact he was not destined for a career as a professional footballer. Its goal is to get Waterloo students thinking about the opportunities a career in the tax field creates for them. She knew she would be retiring shortly from the Royal Ballet and welcomed the opportunity to diversify her career. There are some careers where a significant surname is all you need - being an aristocrat, for example. Teaching is recognized as a career with unique opportunities and satisfying experiences. This symposium will discuss some of the careers and opportunities in biotechnology. Now, he says, he wants to give other youngsters an opportunity of a glittering career, too. Having more control over their careers and financial opportunities is within their grasp. Students were also given the opportunity to discuss careers with the regiment team. Because people now tend to have multiple careers, this transition period could come at any age. It kind of solidifies the buzz around your career and makes more opportunities open to you. So Jan seized the opportunity for a new career as a tour manager, helping groups of tourists get the most out of their holidays. Synonyms profession, occupation, vocation, calling, employment, job, day job, line, line of work, walk of life, position, post, sphere French métier 1.1 The time spent by a person in a career. the end of a distinguished career in the Royal Navy Example sentencesExamples He has had a distinguished career, helping to police the Bradford riots and even fulfilling state ceremonial duties. Both had distinguished careers on the playing fields with Claremorris. The earlier part of his career was spent working in Central Africa and Europe. They are experienced campaigners coming to terms with a fast-shifting landscape towards the end of their distinguished careers. After two careers spent battling each other in the top arenas of the world, this is the final showdown. His distinguished career in the Army saw him attain the rank of Captain, and he opted for early retirement some years ago. I would quite like Mr P-A to get a little further along in his career before he hits old age, but if he has to pass the flame to the next generation, so be it. Much of his career is spent working on physics and non-euclidean geometry. He has in fact partially succeeded in breaking it down during his distinguished career. It is not much of a break when you are 32 and considered to have reached the twilight of a distinguished career. Born in a middle-class family, this talented player started his career at the age of 13. Peter had a distinguished career in the second world war, taking part in the Normandy invasion and serving in the Far East. But Ross and Beamish, who had both enjoyed distinguished careers in the whisky industry, had a plan. The two most prominent painters of this period, Adam Elsheimer and Johann Liss, both spent much of their careers outside Germany. It is also a tribute to a distinguished career during which Naipaul never lost sight of his vocation. The Vulcan and the Victor had long and distinguished careers. At this point in his career Heyting began to follow the same road as his parents by beginning a career as a secondary school teacher. Both have had long and distinguished careers and I wish them well in their retirement from local government. He lives in Sedgley Park and has spent much of his career teaching in secondary schools in Salford and Manchester. Most of his career was spent working in nuclear weapons research. 1.2 The progress through history of an institution, organization, etc. the court has had a chequered career Example sentencesExamples The men who thus set in motion the career of the court which is today celebrating its one hundred birthday were all immigrants. Smith McNell's, the old down-town restaurant and hotel, will change hands shortly for the first time in its long career. We will, however, endeavor to portray with as much accuracy as possible the career of the organization. Synonyms existence, life, progress, course, progression, passage, path 1.3as modifier Working permanently in or committed to a particular profession. a career diplomat Example sentencesExamples Many more black career professionals, he says, are taking up the game for business purposes. From their brief entries most of them seem to be career professionals, perhaps a reflection of their privileged private education. The army's most striking characteristic was its professionalism and the apolitical views of its career commanders. I have one son who is a major in the US Army, he is a career professional. But the carefully modulated tones of this career diplomat were not the red meat that Fleet Street desired. According to Gerdjikov, such statements showed that the person making them was not a career diplomat. Most career pilots didn't get into the profession to end up as cowboys. The career diplomat made a brief and humble statement before taking the oath of office. A career diplomat, he accepted a series of postings on the Continent, and took his young daughter with him. He's a career security professional who deplores the leaks of classified material to the press. As a career diplomat, one might well expect him to tilt the British way. Hannibal is the father figure, the career military man, the only one to attend West Point and it takes some serious time to rise to the rank of Colonel. He is a career diplomat, serving many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. One of them is a marketing executive of a tobacco company and the other a career diplomat and former colleague of the PCB chief. He is no disinterested career diplomat - he's a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind. The next layer down is the permanent career official who works within a government department and carries out government policies. The career diplomat, elected on a rota basis, promised she would be impartial. Perhaps you are just bitter that he is a nationally respected professor while you are just a career student. Hempel was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else. CIA officers are career professionals who work for the president. Synonyms professional, permanent, full-time, committed 1.4as modifier (of a woman) interested in pursuing a profession rather than devoting all her time to childcare and housekeeping. a driven career woman Example sentencesExamples According to researchers, the increasing numbers of career women is the main reason. They are career women whose jobs keep them, their families and their bodies in the public eye. Much attention has been focused on career women who leave the work force to rear children. When Barbie was in her prime, girls were taught to be career women, to be men's equals. Both were career women juggling the pressures of work and a family. One is made up largely of deprived and feckless girls while the other is dominated by highly educated and successful career women. It's easier, she believes, to become a career woman later in life than a mother. The point I wish to make is a sad one, but nevertheless, one that puts some of us career women to shame. The 1980s and 1990s were decades of progress for western career women and working mothers. One in four career women would undergo cosmetic surgery if they were more successful as a result of it, a survey found. Young career women are more likely to demand things like flextime and less overtime from employers. I like being the smart, intelligent career woman who is respected by her peers. There's the victim, and the schemer, the Connecticut white lady, and the career girl. All are career women, although it hasn't come easy and is still not guaranteed. They gave the career woman Miranda a baby that she couldn't cope with. School and college students, housewives, career women and senior citizens participated in the meet. I wasn't even a wife, and I certainly wasn't the hip, urban career girl I had been, either. She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power. British career women, she said, no longer feel they need to join an organisation to fight for equality with men. But a multitude of young career women in Shanghai would be enraged if such a phrase were thrown in their faces. verb kəˈrɪəkəˈrɪr no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. the coach careered across the road and went through a hedge Example sentencesExamples The car careered into a bank on one side of the road rebounding off the bank and throwing both Jarrott and his companion out of the vehicle. He remembered the car careering off the road, ploughing through a hedge and rolling over a couple of times. He rose but careered wildly into the ropes and his tenure as champion was over. The car careered off the road and overturned on a number of occasions. The operation simulated a high speed train - which had jumped a red light - careering into a car on a level crossing. Twelve miles later, a tyre blew and the lorry careered off the road and into a tree. However the longer route has to be taken as they won't fit down the side of the house this way, so it's out through one gate and in through another hoping not to meet a car careering down the road in the process. It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning. The vehicle careered off the road, and landed on its side in a field. He was delivering a truckload of glass panes when he careered off the road between Chiseldon and Liddington yesterday. Three men were rushed to hospital after a stock car careered off a track and ploughed into two of them them during a Sunday race meeting. A police spokesman said the car careered off the road and crashed into a small roadside stone wall before overturning. The car careered down the road and hit a chestnut tree head-on. A woman was killed and a man injured yesterday when their car careered off the road and smashed into a tree. It careered onto the median and struck the car, bursting into flames. A judge at Bradford Crown Court yesterday watched amateur video footage of the Fiesta as it sped along the road before careering into crowds of people lining the race route. This simulated emergency braking and showed how, without ESP the car careered all over the road with much more potential to cause damage. The tires screeched nosily on the road as it careered across going into the path of other cars. High speed cost a new driver his life when his car careered out of control and struck a tree, a North Yorkshire inquest was told. He careered into seven parked cars, at one point mounting the side of a vehicle and driving on only two wheels, before coming to a halt. Synonyms rush, hurtle, streak, shoot, race, bolt, dash, speed, run, gallop, stampede, cannon, careen, whizz, buzz, zoom, flash, blast, charge, hare, fly, wing, pelt, scurry, scud, go like the wind informal belt, scoot, scorch, tear, skedaddle, zap, zip, whip, burn rubber, go like a bat out of hell British informal bomb, bucket, shift North American informal hightail, clip, boogie Phrases in full career archaic At full speed. Example sentencesExamples Such stoppers are invaluable, for without them it is not easy to stop a big full-rigged ship in full career without doing any damage or carrying something away. Our centre had even captured the third enemy line, while the army on the left wing was in full career and now miles away to the west. At his heels follows the Dog, outstretched in full career. They had accordingly made their way back across the mountains, and down the rivers, and were in full career for St. Louis, when thus suddenly interrupted. The Indian again came in sight, and, in full career, rushed towards him, passed him, and wheeling halted his horse. Origin Mid 16th century (denoting a road or racecourse): from French carrière, from Italian carriera, based on Latin carrus 'wheeled vehicle'. The core idea behind the various meanings of career is that of progressing along a course of some kind. Based on Latin carrus, ‘wheeled vehicle’ (see car), career was first used in English to mean both ‘a racecourse’ and ‘a short gallop at full speed, a charge’. From these developed the modern use, for the stages in a person's professional employment, the course of their working life. The verb use, ‘to rush headlong, to hurtle’, preserves the old sense. Rhymes adhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre noun.1 phr. Definition of career in US English: career nounkəˈrirkəˈrɪr 1An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress. Example sentencesExamples Because people now tend to have multiple careers, this transition period could come at any age. After all, most professionals choose their career; they act under their own volition. Having more control over their careers and financial opportunities is within their grasp. Its goal is to get Waterloo students thinking about the opportunities a career in the tax field creates for them. She knew she would be retiring shortly from the Royal Ballet and welcomed the opportunity to diversify her career. There are some careers where a significant surname is all you need - being an aristocrat, for example. Students were also given the opportunity to discuss careers with the regiment team. You decide to take on new opportunities that enhance your career. You should also contact your local careers office/centre for information and advice on careers and learning opportunities. In keeping with tradition, our February issue focuses on careers and opportunities. This could benefit the stream of outgoing students in their hunt for new careers and novel opportunities. After 11 years of internal medicine and cardiology, he opted for a career in occupational medicine. Now, he says, he wants to give other youngsters an opportunity of a glittering career, too. So Jan seized the opportunity for a new career as a tour manager, helping groups of tourists get the most out of their holidays. It kind of solidifies the buzz around your career and makes more opportunities open to you. The son of a wig maker, Lallemand saw a military career as an opportunity for social advancement. As a young man David McInroy had to come to terms with the fact he was not destined for a career as a professional footballer. Teaching is recognized as a career with unique opportunities and satisfying experiences. This symposium will discuss some of the careers and opportunities in biotechnology. Visitors will be able to pick and choose from the hundreds of available careers and training opportunities. Synonyms profession, occupation, vocation, calling, employment, job, day job, line, line of work, walk of life, position, post, sphere 1.1 The time spent by a person while committed to a particular profession. the end of a distinguished career in the navy Example sentencesExamples I would quite like Mr P-A to get a little further along in his career before he hits old age, but if he has to pass the flame to the next generation, so be it. His distinguished career in the Army saw him attain the rank of Captain, and he opted for early retirement some years ago. The earlier part of his career was spent working in Central Africa and Europe. Both have had long and distinguished careers and I wish them well in their retirement from local government. But Ross and Beamish, who had both enjoyed distinguished careers in the whisky industry, had a plan. Much of his career is spent working on physics and non-euclidean geometry. At this point in his career Heyting began to follow the same road as his parents by beginning a career as a secondary school teacher. They are experienced campaigners coming to terms with a fast-shifting landscape towards the end of their distinguished careers. Peter had a distinguished career in the second world war, taking part in the Normandy invasion and serving in the Far East. The two most prominent painters of this period, Adam Elsheimer and Johann Liss, both spent much of their careers outside Germany. He has in fact partially succeeded in breaking it down during his distinguished career. He lives in Sedgley Park and has spent much of his career teaching in secondary schools in Salford and Manchester. Both had distinguished careers on the playing fields with Claremorris. Most of his career was spent working in nuclear weapons research. The Vulcan and the Victor had long and distinguished careers. Born in a middle-class family, this talented player started his career at the age of 13. It is also a tribute to a distinguished career during which Naipaul never lost sight of his vocation. It is not much of a break when you are 32 and considered to have reached the twilight of a distinguished career. He has had a distinguished career, helping to police the Bradford riots and even fulfilling state ceremonial duties. After two careers spent battling each other in the top arenas of the world, this is the final showdown. 1.2 The progress through history of an institution, organization, etc. the court has had a checkered career Example sentencesExamples Smith McNell's, the old down-town restaurant and hotel, will change hands shortly for the first time in its long career. We will, however, endeavor to portray with as much accuracy as possible the career of the organization. The men who thus set in motion the career of the court which is today celebrating its one hundred birthday were all immigrants. Synonyms existence, life, progress, course, progression, passage, path 1.3as modifier Working permanently in or committed to a particular profession. a career diplomat Example sentencesExamples Perhaps you are just bitter that he is a nationally respected professor while you are just a career student. The career diplomat made a brief and humble statement before taking the oath of office. CIA officers are career professionals who work for the president. The army's most striking characteristic was its professionalism and the apolitical views of its career commanders. He's a career security professional who deplores the leaks of classified material to the press. Hannibal is the father figure, the career military man, the only one to attend West Point and it takes some serious time to rise to the rank of Colonel. A career diplomat, he accepted a series of postings on the Continent, and took his young daughter with him. I have one son who is a major in the US Army, he is a career professional. As a career diplomat, one might well expect him to tilt the British way. The next layer down is the permanent career official who works within a government department and carries out government policies. One of them is a marketing executive of a tobacco company and the other a career diplomat and former colleague of the PCB chief. He is a career diplomat, serving many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. He is no disinterested career diplomat - he's a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind. But the carefully modulated tones of this career diplomat were not the red meat that Fleet Street desired. The career diplomat, elected on a rota basis, promised she would be impartial. According to Gerdjikov, such statements showed that the person making them was not a career diplomat. Many more black career professionals, he says, are taking up the game for business purposes. From their brief entries most of them seem to be career professionals, perhaps a reflection of their privileged private education. Hempel was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else. Most career pilots didn't get into the profession to end up as cowboys. Synonyms professional, permanent, full-time, committed 1.4as modifier (of a woman) pursuing a profession outside of the home. Example sentencesExamples According to researchers, the increasing numbers of career women is the main reason. When Barbie was in her prime, girls were taught to be career women, to be men's equals. One is made up largely of deprived and feckless girls while the other is dominated by highly educated and successful career women. It's easier, she believes, to become a career woman later in life than a mother. But a multitude of young career women in Shanghai would be enraged if such a phrase were thrown in their faces. One in four career women would undergo cosmetic surgery if they were more successful as a result of it, a survey found. All are career women, although it hasn't come easy and is still not guaranteed. Both were career women juggling the pressures of work and a family. I like being the smart, intelligent career woman who is respected by her peers. The 1980s and 1990s were decades of progress for western career women and working mothers. There's the victim, and the schemer, the Connecticut white lady, and the career girl. She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power. I wasn't even a wife, and I certainly wasn't the hip, urban career girl I had been, either. They gave the career woman Miranda a baby that she couldn't cope with. School and college students, housewives, career women and senior citizens participated in the meet. The point I wish to make is a sad one, but nevertheless, one that puts some of us career women to shame. Young career women are more likely to demand things like flextime and less overtime from employers. British career women, she said, no longer feel they need to join an organisation to fight for equality with men. They are career women whose jobs keep them, their families and their bodies in the public eye. Much attention has been focused on career women who leave the work force to rear children. verbkəˈrirkəˈrɪr no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction. the car careered across the road and went through a hedge Example sentencesExamples He careered into seven parked cars, at one point mounting the side of a vehicle and driving on only two wheels, before coming to a halt. It careered onto the median and struck the car, bursting into flames. However the longer route has to be taken as they won't fit down the side of the house this way, so it's out through one gate and in through another hoping not to meet a car careering down the road in the process. The tires screeched nosily on the road as it careered across going into the path of other cars. Three men were rushed to hospital after a stock car careered off a track and ploughed into two of them them during a Sunday race meeting. The car careered off the road and overturned on a number of occasions. This simulated emergency braking and showed how, without ESP the car careered all over the road with much more potential to cause damage. The vehicle careered off the road, and landed on its side in a field. Twelve miles later, a tyre blew and the lorry careered off the road and into a tree. He was delivering a truckload of glass panes when he careered off the road between Chiseldon and Liddington yesterday. He remembered the car careering off the road, ploughing through a hedge and rolling over a couple of times. He rose but careered wildly into the ropes and his tenure as champion was over. A police spokesman said the car careered off the road and crashed into a small roadside stone wall before overturning. A woman was killed and a man injured yesterday when their car careered off the road and smashed into a tree. It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning. The car careered into a bank on one side of the road rebounding off the bank and throwing both Jarrott and his companion out of the vehicle. A judge at Bradford Crown Court yesterday watched amateur video footage of the Fiesta as it sped along the road before careering into crowds of people lining the race route. The car careered down the road and hit a chestnut tree head-on. High speed cost a new driver his life when his car careered out of control and struck a tree, a North Yorkshire inquest was told. The operation simulated a high speed train - which had jumped a red light - careering into a car on a level crossing. Synonyms rush, hurtle, streak, shoot, race, bolt, dash, speed, run, gallop, stampede, cannon, careen, whizz, buzz, zoom, flash, blast, charge, hare, fly, wing, pelt, scurry, scud, go like the wind Phrases in full career archaic At full speed. Example sentencesExamples They had accordingly made their way back across the mountains, and down the rivers, and were in full career for St. Louis, when thus suddenly interrupted. Such stoppers are invaluable, for without them it is not easy to stop a big full-rigged ship in full career without doing any damage or carrying something away. At his heels follows the Dog, outstretched in full career. Our centre had even captured the third enemy line, while the army on the left wing was in full career and now miles away to the west. The Indian again came in sight, and, in full career, rushed towards him, passed him, and wheeling halted his horse. Origin Mid 16th century (denoting a road or racecourse): from French carrière, from Italian carriera, based on Latin carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’. noun.1 phr.
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