CAREER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does career mean? 

• CAREER (noun)
  The noun CAREER has 2 senses:

1. the particular occupation for which you are trained

2. the general progression of your working or professional life

  Familiarity information: CAREER used as a noun is rare.

• CAREER (verb)
  The verb CAREER has 1 sense:

1. move headlong at high speed

  Familiarity information: CAREER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAREER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The particular occupation for which you are trained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

calling; career; vocation

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The general progression of your working or professional life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

career; life history

Context example:

he had a long career in the law

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)

• CAREER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they career    ... he / she / it careers   
Past simple: careered   
Past participle: careered   
-ing form: careering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move headlong at high speed

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The mob careered through the streets

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

 Context examples 

On November 26, 2019, you had a powerful new moon in the same career sector, your tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement, which began to set things in motion.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You would have destroyed my writing and my career.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have already explained to you, however, that my career had in any case reached its crisis, and that no possible conclusion to it could be more congenial to me than this.

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

To provide support for a transition period between postdoctoral training and an independent research career.

(Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, NCI Thesaurus)

My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a military career in a distant country, but Ernest never had your powers of application.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To support the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research.

(Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, NCI Thesaurus)

The Independent Scientist Award (ISA) (K02) provides support for newly independent scientists who can demonstrate the need for a period of intensive research focus as a means of enhancing their research careers.

(Independent Scientist Award, NCI Thesaurus)

It encourages extraordinary young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by funding initial postdoctoral Fellowship Awards, Scholar Awards and Clinical Investigator Awards.

(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)

Had he stopped there, with his unbeaten career behind him, then indeed the evening of his life might have been as glorious as its dawn.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If our ex-missionary friends escape the clutches of Lestrade, I shall expect to hear of some brilliant incidents in their future career.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)