Synonyms for career
kəˈrɪər

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. career, calling, vocation(noun)

   the particular occupation for which you are trained

   Synonyms:
   occupational group, life history, calling, vocation

2. career, life history(verb)

   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. career(verb)

   move headlong at high speed

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

English Synonyms and Antonyms(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Antonyms(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. career

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

   Antonyms:
   misproceeding, misdeportment, unsuccess, miscarriage

Dictionary of English Synonymes(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. career(n.)

   Synonyms:
   course, race

2. career(n.)

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

3. career(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   sweep, rush, course, move rapidly

PPDB, the paraphrase database(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "career":

   careers, quarry, carrière, professional, vocational, race, occupational, carrera, quarries, quarrying, profession, career-related, functional, professionals, racing

How to pronounce career?

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US English

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British

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Australian

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Indian

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How to use career in a sentence?

1. Kim Clijsters:

   We were all looking forward to this match and excited to see what the outcome would be, pregnancy and birth is physically very demanding and you deal with new injuries that you are not used to. In the first part of my career I'd have recurring injuries and then after I had( daughter) Jada I had new injuries.

2. Nancy Lieberman:

   The things that have happened to me in my career when they put -- well, she was the first or she did that, it's really not about me. It's just about opening doors and opening people's minds.

3. The SSA:

   If you had worked in non-covered employment for a significant portion of your career, there should be a shared burden between the pension you receive from that period of your employment and from Social Security in providing your benefit.

4. Chaplain Modder:

   It was insulting and it was devastating, i felt discriminated against. How could something like this happen at this stage of my career?

5. Jennifer Lawrence:

   I’ve always thought that it was a good idea to stay out of politics, twenty-five percent of America identifies as liberal and I need more than 25 percent of America to go see my movies. It’s not wise, career-speaking, to talk about politics.

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