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CAREER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The general progression of your working or professional life

Example:

he had a long career in the law

Synonyms:

career; life history

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("career" is a kind of...):

advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression (the act of moving forward (as toward a goal))

Derivation:

careerist (a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The particular occupation for which you are trained

Synonyms:

calling; career; vocation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("career" is a kind of...):

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "career"):

specialisation; specialism; speciality; specialization; specialty (the special line of work you have adopted as your career)

lifework (the principal work of your career)

walk; walk of life (careers in general)

business life; professional life (a career in industrial or commercial or professional activities)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move headlong at high speed

Example:

The mob careered through the streets

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "career" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

Provides support and time for an intensive, supervised research career development experience to individuals with a clinical doctoral degree who are committed to a career in laboratory or clinically-based research.

(Clinical Investigator Award (CIA), NCI Thesaurus)

It applies to clinicians who are pursuing basic science careers; clinicians who are pursuing careers in patient-oriented research; and to individuals pursuing careers in the prevention, control and population sciences.

(Career Transition Award, NCI Thesaurus)

The Association supports basic and clinical research through training and 'seed' grants for researchers who are at the early stage of their careers.

(American Lung Association, NCI Thesaurus)

The ability to grow new egg cells may have significant implications for women in Western societies, many of whom postpone childbearing to establish careers, sometimes into their late thirties or forties.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

Differences in cognitive abilities — and the resulting differences for example in academic success and professional careers — are attributed to a considerable degree to individual differences in intelligence.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I offered the lady marriage, but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might mar my career.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It quite broke his career, or so it seemed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The career of this so unhappy dear lady is but just begun.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Such is the Bench in my chequered career.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Through my means, He opens to you a noble career; as my wife only can you enter upon it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)