career
the particular occupation for which you are trained
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,430 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,063 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the particular occupation for which you are trained also: calling, vocation
- the general progression of your working or professional life also: life history the general had had a distinguished careerhe had a long career in the law
verb
- move headlong at high speed The cars careered down the roadThe mob careered through the streets
career in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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For such a character to make a vital decision rightly is a career.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The end of my career will be spared the privations of its beginning.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Short-lived the clippers for racing-cups that run, And speeds in life’s career many a lavish mother’s-son.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Mr. Stiles, shaking his head over a somewhat unsuccessful career, was making a bee-line for the Cock and Flowerpot.
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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I had entered from the first into the joke of his career—I pretended to regard him as a consecrated child.
Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1