career

Forms

1.One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.
2.The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
- 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.
3.The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
4.A jouster's path during a joust.
- 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.

1.To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
- 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.

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

Common· #796

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