careernoun/kəˈɹɪə/

• 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 career
• 2

  The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.

  • Washington’s career as a soldier
  • This scandal could ruin his career.
• 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 […]
• 4

  archaicSpeed.

  • What rein can hold licentious wickedness When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
  • when a horse is running in his full career
• 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.
• 6

  obsoleteA 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.
  • Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
• 7

  falconryhobbieshuntingThe flight of a hawk.

• 8

  obsoleteA racecourse; the ground run over.

  • to think of going back again the same career

careerverb/kəˈɹɪə/

• 1

  To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

  • The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
  • He likens the story of his 20s to “a fully fuelled jumbo jet just reaching take-off point and having to slam on the brakes. You’ve got this enormous bloody thing careering off the end of the runway, through the fence, through the house next door, bursting into flames and me crawling out and scraping my wounds for 10 years. I won't be flying that one again.”

careeradj/kəˈɹɪə/

• 1

  Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity).

  • a career burglar
  • Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.
• 2

  Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”).

  • a career rapist