career

Meaning

Noun

1. One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously and/or over a long period of time.
2. The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
3. The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
4. (archaic) Speed.
5. A jouster's path during a joust.
6. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
7. The flight of a hawk.
8. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

Verb

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

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity).
2. (broadly, not-comparable) Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”).

Synonyms

profession

occupation

vocation

job

calling

📲

trade

work

personal history

speed

history

life history

hurtle

run

employment

record

race

zoom

line

fly

✈️

business

occupancy

occupations

passage

passing

position

post

pursuit

quarry

rebate

running

🏃

rut

scoot

scope

scour

scud

scurry

shoot

skedaddle

skitter

slot

sprint

spurt

stadium

🏟️

stage

streak

sweep

tear

track

vocations

whisk

Translations

carrière

Karriere

carrera

carriera

profesión

Beruf

επάγγελμα

Laufbahn

loopbaan

meslek

carreira

🛣️

professió

professione

مهنة

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈɹɪɹ/

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.

Sentences

He was the first career employee ever to become director of the agency .

In the course of his career , Erb earned considerable recognition .

Sandor began her career as an actress , becoming a writer in her mid-twenties.

Despite her renewed musical emphasis , Deckers' career failed to prosper .

Prosser began his career with Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States .