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	careerist

	careers officer

	carefree

	careful

	caregiver

	careless

	carelessness

	carer

	caress

	caressing

	caret

	caretaker

	caretaker government

	careware

	careworn

	Carey Street

	carfare

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career

ca·reer [ kə rr ]

noun (plural ca·reers)

Definition:

1. long-term or lifelong job: a job or occupation regarded as a long-term or lifelong activity

2. professional progress: somebody's progress in a chosen profession or during that person's working life

3. general progress: the general path or progress taken by somebody or something

a piece of legislation whose career is rich with conflicting amendments

4. rapid forward lurching motion: a rushing onward while lurching or swaying

adjective

Definition:

1. professional for life: trained for and expecting to work in a particular occupation for an entire working life rather than briefly

a career diplomat

2. performing illegal acts through lifetime: committing illegal acts throughout a lifetime, without apparent remorse or desire for self-improvement

a career criminal, who was imprisoned after 25 years of armed robbery

intransitive verb (past and past participle ca·reered, present participle ca·reer·ing, 3rd person present singular ca·reers)

Definition:

lurch rapidly onward: to rush forward while lurching or swaying

[Mid-16th century. < French carrière< Latin carrus (see car)]

Cultural Note


	My Brilliant Career, a novel (1901) by Australian writer Miles Franklin. It is an account of a young girl's struggle to choose between an independent career and a comfortable life as the wife of a wealthy landowner. It was made into a movie directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1979.