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career English

Meaning career meaning

What does career mean?
Definitions in simple English

career Noun

— A career is a job or a series of related jobs that you do for many years. His pro coaching career spans 23 years, including time with the 49ers (1967-73 and' 77), the Browns (1978-80), the Oilers (1981-82), the Cowboys (1983-85) and the Cardinals (1986-89). She says that she enjoyed making the movie, but has no plans to pursue an acting career. Students need more support from teachers and advisers in deciding about academic programs and career paths. Don quit his old job and launched a new career, restoring classic cars in a backyard garage. He lost his hand in an accident, which ended his painting career. Career advancement is often based on job performance, not just how long you've been in the job.

career

— noun the particular occupation for which you are trained — noun 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 move headlong at high speed The cars careered down the road The mob careered through the streets

Synonyms career synonyms

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career English » English

profession occupation vocation job calling work trade speed personal history history zoom run record race line life history hurtle fly employment business zoom along zip world whistle whisk vocations travel rapidly track tear sweep streak stage stadium spurt sprint slot skitter skim over skedaddle shoot scurry scud scour scope scoot rut rush along running rebate racing course

Conjugation career conjugation

How do you conjugate career?

career · verb

Examples career examples

How do I use career in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Learning Klingon will be of great use for his career as a businessman.
Tom has just been let go from his job. Because he had signed the employer's non-competition contract, he must now choose among relocation, a significant career change, unemployment or litigation.
Her fear of flying is a serious handicap in her career.
My parents told me that if I worked hard I would have a good career.
That day proved to be the turning point in his career.
No matter what your profession, or how happy you may be in it, there are moments when you wish you had chosen some other career.
Your family should come before your career.
I put my family before my career.
My teacher guided me in the choice of a career.
His career is progressing in leaps and bounds.
His political career has ended.
His career culminated in the presidency.
When Justin Bieber started his music career, he was fourteen years old.
You're interested in a career in foreign relations, aren't you?
In all my career as a travel agent, I never visited Africa.
This marriage will be advantageous to his career.
This decision will reflect on his future career.
I plan to pursue a career in international finance.
Which comes first, your career or your family?
He wanted to make singing a career.
He sensed that threat early in his career.
He has spent most of his time as a career diplomat.
The scandal nearly wrecked her career.

Movie subtitles

I don't need you to have a successful career!
Previously I fought for a successful career and for my honor. I was desperate to raise my reputation in the world. It was with such a selfish desire that I annihilated the Yoshioka School.
You'll destroy my career?
Then you wouldn't have ruined her career?
He just measures success in-in-in concrete terms, which is why Josh, with his career and his family, is totally winning.
This is my career, Ben.
How dare you jeopardise my career!
You have spent time in jail, your career is limited as it is.
If you don't cooperate with me, your career is over.
A potential career.
Any jealous attempt on your part to interefere with the performance will prove disastrous to your career.
This could be a turning point for your career.
I'll give him the most miserable night of his entire business career.
Well how did you get started in your career?
Ladies and gentlemen, I raise my glass to Captain Hubert who just earned a well-deserved third stripe. To his lovely wife, our hospital's head nurse, whose beauty and competence will support her husband's brilliant career.
She didn't want anyone to know because as a successful actress, it would hinder her from building her career, etc.
And Shubin can do so much to help my career.
Born in Wales, Clive was a master of the various dialects of the British Isles, and toured extensively in the provinces after taking up a stage career at the age of 22.
Rains had a distinguished career on the London stage, playing in some very important productions, including a series of George Bernard Shaw plays.
Before coming to Hollywood in 1930, he had an impressive career in the theatre.
My career of crime.
Perhaps the foundation of a now career.
She is having a great career here.
I took you out of the gutter and gave you a career. Made a first-class pickpocket out of you. And this is your gratitude!
You know. It'll ruin his life. It'll ruin his career.
How do you like that? Letting his marriage interfere with our career?
He's got a career ahead of him.
Not fair to Claire. To think of my only son wasting his time on a. on a. Career is the word, Dad.
Career?
You call daubing a career?
It'll ruin your career.
It'll ruin his life. It'll ruin his career.
You call banking a career?
Do you know what career is?
They had what I call a career Did they make money?
It's the high point of my career as a collector of musical and mechanical instruments.
Zenta. Did you choose between middle school or career school?
This isn't just a newspaper story, it's a career.
In my short career I've had success as a schoolmaster, a salesman of perfumes.. Steam locomotives.. political editor of a newspaper. Why go on?

News and current affairs

Annan spent most of his career outside of Ghana, and had some of his higher education in the US.
Unlike most American CEOs, Annan was not parachuted in from outside; he is the first career employee to lead the UN.
Stanculescu's career boomed.
Their altruism may include their time and talents, and influence their choice of career.
Looking back at his career, Arafat never really veered from the belief that his life's mission was to destroy Israel by any means necessary and replace it with a Palestinian Arab state.
Future. Avoid ambiguity in matters of job security and career development; promote life-long learning and employability.
Wolfensohn left a successful business career to lead the global campaign against poverty.
As economists Ronald Schettkat and Richard Freeman have pointed out, career women do not necessarily work more hours per week than women with part-time jobs or stay-at-home moms.
Since then I have followed his career closely.
Armstrong chose Indiana because its oncologists said they could treat him without bleomycin, a type of chemotherapy that would have damaged his lungs and ended his cycling career if he survived.
Silvio Berlusconi, another real-estate billionaire, who began his career as a crooner on a cruise ship, was even more outrageous than Trump, as well as a master of the mass media - literally so, as he owned most of it in his country.
Hirschman's interests shifted away from economic development over the course of his illustrious career.
After a brilliant secondary education, Phelps entered Amherst College in Massachusetts without any specific idea about which discipline to embrace or which career to follow.
After all, women professionals do not have to choose between a career and children, but can enjoy both.
One option would be to increase substantially the number of mid-career recruits with actual practical experience in developing countries.
Some commencement speakers focus on the graduates' accomplishments; others emphasize the career-related challenges that lie ahead.
How will they adapt to enable their partner to fulfill his or her career aspirations?
The point is the choice: the choice of how much energy to devote to one's home, the choice of a career based on passion, and the choice of a genuinely equal partner.
A woman with great career ambitions should be able to find a partner who is willing to slow down or stop working to support her, just as a man should.
To prepare for a career of care-giving, medical students and young doctors clearly require something besides scientific and technological training.
If he does, he will probably be remembered as one of Colombia's most successful and influential presidents, and can look forward to a continuing career as a regional and international statesman.
A well-educated person seeking a career in government can be seen not only as a fool, but as corrupt as well-hardly inspirational!
Throughout my entire career I have worked with many people whose driving impulse has been to serve Hong Kong.

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