Definitions for career

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career ca·reer

Spelling: [kuh-reer]

IPA: /kəˈrɪər/

Career is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in career (aceerr).

Definitions for career

noun

1. an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework:
2. a person's progress or general course of action through life or through a phase of life, as in some profession or undertaking:
3. success in a profession, occupation, etc.
4. a course, especially a swift one.
5. speed, especially full speed:
6. Archaic. a charge at full speed.

adjective

1. having or following a career; professional:

verb (used without object)

1. to run or move rapidly along; go at full speed.

Origin of career

1525-35; Middle French carriere Old Provençal carriera literally, road Late Latin carrāria (via) vehicular (road), equivalent to Latin carr(us) wagon (see car¹

Examples for career

We do not know how or why or when the human race began its career upon this Earth.

For nearly her entire life Beyoncé has been giving us her blood, sweat, and tears in her career.

From the beginning to the end of his career he was as much a lyric poet as a dramatist.

Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.

I like him; I should like him even if he were not an Earl—and his name a career.

No, so long as my sister has the career fever, I say law, every time.

I always wanted to have a career like his—except for the stopping work thing.

But as everyone knows, he went on to say—not once but many times—that that was the greatest error of his career by far.

But there was much in the career of the great Napoleon to inspire enthusiasm.

So looking at that and that at that time I was also pursuing my career—so there was something here.