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Synonyms for career
kəˈrɪərca·reer

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.7 / 3 votes

  1. career

    A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

    If you will use the lance, take ground for your career.... The four horsemen met in full career.

    Scott Quentin Durward ch. 14, p. 194. [D. F. & CO.]

    In its figurative use career signifies some continuous and conspicuous work, usually a life-work, and most frequently one of honorable achievement. Compare BUSINESS.

    Synonyms:
    charge, course, flight, line of achievement, passage, public life, race, rush

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. career

    Synonyms:
    course, success, walk, line, progress, history, race

    Antonyms:
    misproceeding, misdeportment, unsuccess, miscarriage

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. career, calling, vocationnoun

    the particular occupation for which you are trained

    Synonyms:
    occupational group, life history, calling, vocation

  2. career, life historyverb

    the general progression of your working or professional life

    "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law"

    Synonyms:
    life story, life history, calling, life, vocation, biography

  3. careerverb

    move headlong at high speed

    "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets"

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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 3 votes

  1. careernoun

    Synonyms:
    course, race

  2. careernoun

    Synonyms:
    procedure, conduct, course of action, manner of life

  3. careerverb

    Synonyms:
    sweep, rush, course, move rapidly

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How to use career in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive:

    The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

  2. Steve Nash:

    Obviously my career didn't end in the fashion that I wanted it to, at the same time, I've had an incredibly long career, 18 seasons. I've had back issues predominantly throughout my career and so when you have that in perspective, I could have very easily been finished eight, nine or 10 years into my career.

  3. Washington Phil Mickelson:

    I don't feel that sense of urgency ... it's something I really would love to do is complete the career grand slam, i'm in the best shape I've been in. I've always felt a long golf swing -- a long, smooth, flowing swing -- leads to a long career, and a short, violent swing leads to a short career.

  4. Jennifer Korn:

    One of the biggest challenges is, do I leave my career or do I leave my husband ? at different points of my career, I have left my career. A couple times, me and my husband have lived apart, at one point three years apart while he was on back-to-back deployments. It's very difficult if you have to choose.

  5. Joseph L. Mankiewicz:

    Funny business, a woman's career the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.


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