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Plural of career

regular plural

The plural of career is careers.

Forms of career

Singularcareer /kəˈɹɪə/
Pluralcareers
Countablecountable

Careers in a sentence

  • Getting my first job was tough, but my careers advisor helped me every step of the way.From the entry every step of the way
  • Visitorships in reputed universities can significantly advance careers.From the entry visitorship
  • Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers.From the entry political
  • These two jobs occupy the top two spots on the highest risk careers.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian. From the entry on the job
  • Weeders are often the first barrier to entry into certain professional careers for students.2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, archived from the original…. From the entry weeder

Meaning of career

  1. noun One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.
  2. noun The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.
  3. noun The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.

Full definition of career

Questions about the plural of career

What is the plural of career?
The plural of career is careers.
Is career countable?
Career is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: career (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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