career Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the particular occupation for which you are trained
    vocation; calling.
  2. noun the general progression of your working or professional life
    life history.
    • the general had had a distinguished career
    • he had a long career in the law
  3. verb move headlong at high speed
    • The cars careered down the road
    • The mob careered through the streets

WordNet

Ca*reer" noun
Etymology
F. carrière race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car.
Definitions
  1. A race course: the ground run over.
    To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney.
  2. A running; full speed; a rapid course.
    When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins.
  3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.
    An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.
  4. (Falconary) The fight of a hawk.
Ca*reer" intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Careered 3; present participle & verbal noun Careering
Definitions
  1. To move or run rapidly.
    areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.

Webster 1913