career

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the general progression of your working or professional life

   the general had had a distinguished career

2. 2
   verb

   to move headlong at high speed

   The cars careered down the road

3. 3
   noun

   One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.

   When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years, / Then they expect you to pick a career

4. 4
   noun

   The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.

   Washington’s career as a soldier

5. 5
   noun

   The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.

   As I explored the possibility of a library science path, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again […]

6. 6
   noun

   Speed.

   What rein can hold licentious wickedness When down the hill he holds his fierce career?

7. 7
   noun

   A jouster's path during a joust.

   These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.

8. 8
   noun

   A short gallop of a horse.

   It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.

Etymology

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.