carreer

Noun

career (plural careers)

1. 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 career1971, “Working Class Hero”, in John Lennon (lyrics), John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band, performed by John Lennon
2. The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
   • Washington’s career as a soldier
3. 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 […]2002, Priscilla K. Shontz, Steven J. Oberg, Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science, page 21
4. (archaic) Speed.
   • What rein can hold licentious wickedness
     When down the hill he holds his fierce career?c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 3, scene 3
5. 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.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....
6. (obsolete) 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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