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career-defining

career-defining adjective: crucial to determining the future path of one's career.

Adjective

career-defining

  1. Crucial to determining the future path of one's career.
    • Now, another career-defining challenge awaits. […] choosing one's medical specialty.2004, Brian Freeman, The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty, page 5
    • Over the years I've become fascinated with these career-defining points in time, not only because they are so often interesting and dramatic as stories in and of themselves, but also because they have so much to teach us.2011, Harlan Steinbaum, Michael Steinbaum, Dave Conti, Tough Calls from the Corner Office

Questions about career-defining

What does career-defining mean?
Career-defining means crucial to determining the future path of one's career.
What part of speech is career-defining?
Career-defining is an adjective.

Words near career-defining in the dictionary

  1. career politicians
  2. career suicide
  3. career suicides
  4. career woman
  5. career women
  6. career-defining
  7. career-limiting move
  8. career-limiting moves
  9. careered
  10. careerer
  11. careerers

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