career

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The job or profession you do over a long part of your working life.

   She built a successful career in medicine.

2. 2
   noun

   The progress and development of someone's working life in a particular field.

   His career as a soldier lasted nearly thirty years.

3. 3
   verb

   To move forward very fast and out of control.

   The cars careered down the road and crashed into a wall.

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Simplified etymology

Career is based on Latin carrus, “wheeled vehicle,” and originally referred in English to a racecourse or a short gallop or charge at full speed. By the early 19th century, the idea of following a course had produced the modern sense of the stages of a person’s working life. The verb meaning “rush headlong” preserves the older sense of rapid movement.

Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.

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