Career

Definitions: Career

Career

Noun

1. The particular occupation for which you are trained.

2. The general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law".

Verb

1. Move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "career" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Language

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Career

Business

Part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.

Conduct

Execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.

Death

Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.

Crosswords: Career

You know, I have made a career out of waiting for you to show up. (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

Maybe you should try a new career. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

No, No, I want to destroy this man's life, career everything. (Runaway Bride; writing credit: Josann McGibbon; Sara Parriott)

Funny business, a woman's career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

I've had plenty of jo-jobs; nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way: I have an extensive collection of nametags and hairnets. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

That's right, career moves ("Control"; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old ("Draft Dodger Rag"; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

Career Minded: Back Stabber. (references; author: unknown)

Never confuse having a career with having a life. (references; author: unknown)

Life lesson: You should not confuse your career with your life. (references; author: unknown)

Career Bed (1972)

My Financial Career (1962)

Career Soldier (1960)

A Samurai's Career (1929)

The Career of Katherine Bush (1919)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Career Education Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Concorde Career Colleges, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Jane Goodall: Animal Behaviorist and Writer (Ferguson's Career Biography Series) (reference)

• Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking (reference)

• Barking Her Way to the Top : A Collie Pursues a Career in the Civil Service (reference)

• John Barleycorn, his life and letters; a satirical story of his eventful career replete with facts, repartee, and humor (reference)

• Art and Reality: The New Standard Reference Guide and Business Plan for Actively Developing Your Career As an Artist (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Aacvpr Career Hotline (reference)

• Career Choices Newsletter (reference)

• Career Development For Exceptional Individuals (reference)

• Career Development Quarterly (reference)

• Career Education Review (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• My Brilliant Career (reference)

• Career Opportunities (reference)

• Hitler A Career (reference)

• Tenchi in Tokyo:A New Career (reference)

• Career Girls (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 1961-1990: A Complete Career Anthology (reference)

• Atmospherics: Complete Career Collection 1966-1975 (reference)

• Career Moves [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Career Creator Pro Add-On for The Sims (reference)

• SWAT Career Pack (reference)

• Career Launch Resume Writing (reference)

• Complete Career IQ Test 1.0 (reference)

• Resumemaker with Kaplan's Career Planning 6.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Amos Kendall - the 4th Auditor under Andrew Jackson Adversary of Ferdinand Hassler Telegraph entrepreneur in later career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Robert Knox Rose to Rear Admiral during career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER in Puget Sound near the end of an illustrious career.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 48. Lucas sounding machine, invented by Francis Lucas. Lucas began his career laying submarine cable in 1856. He subsequently became chief engineer at the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company. He invented this lightweig t wire-sounding machine in 1878 and first used on the ALERT the same year. This type of machine was used by British hydrographic ships after 1887.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The Air Force is embarking on a "cultural shift" that will bolster its recruiting force and make recruiting duty an integral part of nearly every noncommissioned officer's career path by ending its all-volunteer recruiter system and adopting a s.

09/29/00 - WASHINGTON --Lt. Col. Ken, and Majs. Karl and Kevin Rozelsky, meet at the Pentagon to be pinned-on by the Air Force chief of staff. The brothers -- all Air Force Academy graduates -- followed different career paths, but have opted to make the A.

Where else can 3 minutes work last a lifetime? : Nursing. Make a career out of caring.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Meet new people every day : Midwifery. Make a career out of caring.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Possibly photographed while in Navy service. This craft was purchased for local use with funds raised by the Bar Harbor (Maine) War Relief Committee. She began Navy service on 13 June 1917 and was sold on 4 June 1921. Relief had no "SP" series number, but was designated YP-2 during the final year of her Navy career.Credit: NAVY.

Photographed early in her career, probably in 1941.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Feeling that he ought to be something in the government, he had chosen the career of a churchwarden.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If you work, you may be taking a different look at your career, beginning to contemplate retirement, or feeling challenged by younger coworkers. (references)

These impairments in communication skills can lead to poor academic performance (especially reading), and ultimately, to limitations in career opportunities. (references)

A variety of support mechanisms are utilized, including research grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, centers, grants, career development awards, fellowships, and research training grants. (references)

Business

His career has spanned many activities and organizations. (references)

The Ministry of Higher Education has a well-developed evaluation and accreditation program, both for individual institutions and career groups by recommended country. (references)

Due to the affirmative action policies and the so-called "brain-drain", where large numbers of skilled, mainly white, graduates are leaving the country in search of better career prospects abroad, there is an acute shortage of skills found in the historically disadvantaged part of the population. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cuba

These reports directly affected students' educational and career prospects. (references)

Syria

However, in the case of Alawis, religion can be a contributing factor in determining career opportunities. (references)

Malaysia

However, there is self-censorship among public university academics whose career advancement and funding depend on the Government. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

A working knowledge of the English language has become a prerequisite for a career in many fields in Argentina. (references)

Thailand

Bangkok's governor is popularly elected, but those of the remaining provinces are career civil servants appointed by the Ministry of Interior. (references)

Solomon Islands

Each ministry is headed by a cabinet member, who is assisted by a permanent secretary, a career public servant, who directs the staff of the ministry. (references)

Human Rights

Thailand

Judges are career civil servants and judicial appointments and judicial bodies are not subject to parliamentary review. (references)

Costa Rica

The Government's long-term plan is to establish permanent, professional cadres, eventually resulting in a nonpolitically appointed career force. (references)

Dominican Republic

Under the 1994 constitutional amendments, the Supreme Court is responsible for naming all lower court judges in accordance with a judicial career law. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

The lack of religious minorities at higher levels of the military partially may be due to the limited number of minorities who opt for a career in the armed forces. (references)

Burma

In some ethnic minority areas, such as Chin State, there continued to be many reports that the army offered financial and career incentives for Burman soldiers to marry Chin women, teach them Burmese, and convert them to Buddhism. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

The representation of ethnic Kyrgyz at senior and intermediate levels of government was disproportionately high, giving credence to perceptions that career opportunities in government were limited for those who were not ethnic Kyrgyz. (references)

Political Economy

Uk

The UK national government, consisting of 21 cabinet-level departments, and numerous smaller entities, is staffed by career civil servants. (references)

Malta

The appointed commissioner who commands the police is under the effective supervision of the Government and may be either a civilian or career member of the force. (references)

Japan

Although ministers are usually selected from the members of the Diet, the ministries have traditionally been run by vice ministers who are promoted from within the career bureaucracy. (references)

Political Rights

Togo

He replaced Eugene Koffi Adoboli, a former career U.N. officer who was not a member of the ruling party. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Furthermore, the Court maintained that Ouattara had considered himself a citizen of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) earlier in his career. (references)

Women

Kuwait

Educated women maintain that the conservative nature of society limits career opportunities. (references)

Worker Rights

Belgium

The agreement calls for a 38-hour workweek as of 2003, and provides that private sector workers are entitled to a 1-year career interruption for family-related reasons. (references)

Sweden

Career military personnel, police officers, and civilian government officials, as well as private sector workers in both manufacturing and service industries, are organized. (references)

Austria

The Labor Code provides that workers have the right to remove themselves from a job if they fear "serious, immediate danger to life and health" without incurring any prejudice to their job or career, and the Government effectively enforces this law. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "career": a fruitful career ♦ at the zenith of one's career ♦ career advisor ♦ Career Choice ♦ career counseling ♦ career diplomat ♦ career girl ♦ career guidance ♦ career in the civil service ♦ career Limiting Move ♦ career man ♦ Career Mobility ♦ career office ♦ career orientated ♦ career solder ♦ career woman ♦ carve out a career for oneself ♦ chequered career ♦ diplomatic career ♦ hew out a career for oneself ♦ in full career ♦ military career ♦ pursue a career ♦ teaching career ♦ writing career. Additional references.

Beginning with "career": career-assessment, career-based, career-best, career-bests, career-break, career-centred, career-changing, career-conscious, career-defining, career-enhancing, career-girl, career-highest, career-hungry, career-indeed, career-long, career-making, career-minded, career-motivated, career-motivation, career-move, career-orientated, career-oriented, career-problematic, career-related, career-route, career-saving, career-search, career-structure, career-suicidal, career-swaps, career-threatening, career-type, career-wise, career-woman, career-woman-housewife-mother.

Ending with "career": dual-career, mid-career, non-career.

Containing "career": adolescence-as-career-move.

Albanian

vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, dash, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), sulem (dash, go for, hotfoot, make for, rush, swing, tear along, throw oneself, Wade), shpejtësi (celerity, despatch, dispatch, flow, haste, legerity, lick, momentum, pace, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rate, speed, swiftness, tearing hurry, velocity), profesion (calling, employment, lay, line, metier, occupation, practice, profession, trade, vocation, walks of life), karierë (aggrandizement). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهنة (avocation, business, calling, craftsmanship, function, job, metier, occupation, practice, profession, pursuit, trade, vocation, work), ‏مجرى حياة المرء, ‏نجح في مهمة, ‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), ‏سرعة (alacrity, blast, despatch, dispatch, expedition, gait, haste, hastiness, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), ‏سرع (accelerate, chase, fast, force, get a move on, gun, hasten, hurry up, hustle, lollop, pelt, pounce, push, quicken, rush, smarten, speed, speed up, step on it, throttle, trot), ‏عدا بسرعة (gallop), ‏السيرة (conduct), ‏إنطلق (dash, get away, go, lick, pull away, push off, scud, set out, shove off, split, spout, spring, spurt, start, start off, start out, take out, tee off, waft). (various references)

Bulgarian 

устрем (dash, elan, impetus, onrush), тичам бързо (hare), кариера (excavation, mine, pit, quarry, race), кариер, занимание (amusement, concern, concernment, employment, exercise, game, job, occupation, ploy, prep, pursuit, way), бързо препускане, професия (business, craft, metier, occupation, path, profession, shop, station, trade), професионален (occupation, occupational, professional, shoppy, vocational), препускам бясно, поприще (arena, avocation, field, line, path, stage, walk of life). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�涯 , 事业 (undertaking, Venture). (various references)

Czech

cesta (alley, byway, channel, crossing, drive, itinerary, jaunt, journey, Lane, passage, path, pathway, ride, road, route, tour, track, trail, travel, trip, venture, voyage, walk, way), profese (calling, profession, trade), povolání (business, calling, job, occupation, recall, vocation), kariéra, hnát se (belt, hurtle, plunge, pursue, push on, race, rush, shift, shoot, spurt, tear along, urge), dráha (course, path, race, railway, route, track, trajectory), řítit se (drive up, hurtle, speed along). (various references)

Danish

kvinders genindtræden på arbejdsmarkedet (woman wishing to resume a career). (various references)

Dutch

loopbaan, carrière. (various references)

Esperanto

kariero. (various references)

Farsi 

مقام یاشغل , مسیر (Course, Orbit, Path, Point, Race, Run, Strand, Street, Trade, Trajectory, Traverse, Vector), حرفه (Avocation, Metier, Mystery, Profession, Pursuit, Trade, Vocation), دوره زندگی (Lifetime), دوره (Age, Circuit, Epoch, Era, Periphery, Set, Space, Stadium, Stretch, Term). (various references)

Finnish

virkaura, ura (channel, course, groove, grooving, locus, slot, tracking), elämänvaiheet (events of life), elämänura. (various references)

French

carrière. (various references)

German

laufbahn (track), karriere (gallop), beruf (calling, handicraft, occupation, profession, trade, victim's occupation, vocation). (various references)

Greek 

καριέρα. (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"לך חיים, ל�"�"ור (buck, gallop), ל� וע בזריזות (zip), קריר�". (various references)

Hungarian

pályafutás (course of life), karrier, életpálya (calling, course of life, race, walk of life). (various references)

Indonesian

karir. (various references)

Italian

carriera. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

閲歴 , 経歴 (personal history), 来歴 (history), 履歴 (background, log, personal history), キャ�"ネ判 (cabbage, cabin, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caravan, caraway, carburetor, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りれき (background, log, personal history), キャリア (career government employee), らいれき (history), けいれき (personal history), えつれき. (various references)

Korean 

경� �. (various references)

Manx

imneeaght roish, coorse (circuit, course, curriculum, racetrack, reef, route, routine, row, travel, way). (various references)

Papiamen

karera. (various references)

Pig Latin

areercay

Portuguese

carreira (flight, foot the bill, pursuit, race, row, run, scud), profissão (calling, craft, fraternization, handicraft, metier, occupation, profession, pursuit, work). (various references)

Romanian

carierã (pit, quarry, vocation, walk of life), calea vieţii, zbura (dart, dash, flash, flee, fleet, flight, flit, fly, fly out, hover, sail, slip, sweep, tower), vitezã (celerity, fastness, gear, headway, muzzle velocity, pace, promptness, rapidity, rate, speed, velocity), viaţã (alacrity, animation, being, biography, cheerfulness, day, existence, life, living, pepper, reality, spirit, sprightliness, vitality), progres (advance, advancement, development, furtherance, growth, headway, March, progress, rise), profesiune (metier, occupation, profession, trade, vocation, walk of life), goni (banish, chase, course, dash, discard, dismiss, dispel, drive, flap away, Hunt, pack off, send, send away, shoo, start, sweep), fugi (chase, collide, course, dash, disappear, elope, escape, flee, fly, fly off, give way, make off, make one's escape, pack off, run, scamper, scatter, scuttle away, take oneself to flight), fugã (be quick, bolt, bunk, course, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, slip, stampede), alerga (chase, collide, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hasten, hurry, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, spank, urge, walk). (various references)

Russian 

карьера. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

karijera. (various references)

Spanish

carrera (baptist cone, bearer, bolster, bound, cap, chase, dash, displacement, ladder, lift, line, race, run, running start, rush, scud, scurry, spring, sprint, stroke, throw, track, travel, traverse). (various references)

Swedish

karriär. (various references)

Turkish

sürat (celerity, clip, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness, velocity), meslekte başarı kazanma, meslek hayatı, meslek (avocation, calling, game, ism, job, metier, path, profession, professional, racket, shop, trade, vocation, walk of life), koşmak (clip, course, harness, jog, leg, leg it, run, rush, scamper, scamper about, scour, scurry, shin, team, yoke), kariyer yapma, kariyer, hız yapmak (speed, speed up), hız (bat, celerity, dispatch, expedition, haste, impetus, lick, pace, pelt, quickness, raciness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, swiftness, tilt, velocity), dörtnala koşmak (gallop). (various references)

Ukranian 

успіх (achievement, advance, advancement, big time, hit, luck, prosperity, success), справа життя, швидкий біг, кар'�"ра, кар'�"р (mine, open-cast), гнати (bear, blow, chivvy, chivy, hie, run, spur on), ганяти щодуху, мчати (bucket, course, dash, fly, hurtle, post, race, sail, scud, shoot ahead, shove along, tear along, waft, whiz, whizz, whoosh), заняття (affair, affairs, engagement, lesson, metier, occupation, profession, pursuit, school, trade, walk, work), житт�"вий шлях (race, walk), професія дипломата, професія (avocation, calling, metier, occupation, profession, vocation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lao nhanh, sự chạy nhanh (sprint), nghề (craft, profession, stuff, trade), đời hoạt động. (various references)

Welsh

rhawd (course), gyrfa (course, race). (various references)

carrus, curriculum, vita, vitae, vitam, vitas, vitis. (various references)

carriere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "career": careered, careerer, careerers, careering, careerism, careerisms, careerist, careerists, careers. (additional references)

Words ending with "career": noncareer. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Career" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aceer, Acerero, areer, cadere, Caerau, cagree, Capreee, caraa, carcere, Carcereri, carceri, carea, carear, caree, careeer, careem, Careg, carer, carera, carere, carerr, Carerra, careter, cariar, carier, Carker, carmer, Carnero, carpere, carrea, carrear, carreau, carree, carreer, carrer, Carrere, Carser, caruer, Caryer, Casebere, cavere, coreper, craaark, Crear, Creber, creer, Crer, curere, currere. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: carer, racer.

-2 letters: acre, care, carr, cere, race, rare, rear.

-3 letters: ace, arc, are, car, cee, ear, era, ere, err, rec, ree.

-4 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: acerber, amercer, caperer, careers, caterer, cerebra, clearer, creamer, creaser, prerace, reacher, recrate, retrace, terrace.

+2 letters: amercers, breacher, caperers, careener, careered, careerer, carefree, caresser, caterers, cellarer, cerebral, clearers, cratered, creakier, creamers, creamery, creamier, creasers, creasier, creature, declarer, ecraseur, embracer, larcener, parcener, preacher, preclear, prefacer, reachers, rearmice, recaller, recamier, recanter, recarpet, recharge, recrated, recrates, recreant, recreate, replacer, reracked, research, retraced, retraces, screamer, searcher, terraced, terraces, verrucae.

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