career
career Lexical Profile
career Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An occupation or profession undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and typically offering opportunities for progress and advancement.
"She pursued a rewarding career in biomedical research after completing her doctorate."
A person's general course or progression through life or a distinct portion of it, especially in public, professional, or artistic endeavors.
"The biography traces the writer's turbulent literary career from his early poems to his final novel."
Rapid, continuous forward motion or momentum; full speed.
"The startled horses set off in full career across the open meadow."
• adjective
Pursuing or permanently engaged in a specified profession, occupation, or habitual activity as a long-term way of life.
"As a career diplomat, he had lived in seven different countries over the course of three decades."
• verb
To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled or headlong manner in a specified direction.
"The delivery truck lost its brakes on the icy slope and careered into a snowbank."
Word Nuance & Usage
As a verb meaning to move swiftly and uncontrollably, 'career' is often confused with 'careen', which originally meant to tilt or lean to one side (as a ship) and later took on a similar sense of lurching wildly.
• Rhymes for career
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 16th century from Middle French 'carriere' (a racecourse or road), from Old Occitan or Italian 'carriera', ultimately from Vulgar Latin '*carraria' (a road for wheeled vehicles), derived from Latin 'carrus' (wheeled vehicle).