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noun

Career n.

A race course: the ground run over. "To go back again the same career."

A running; full speed; a rapid course. "When a horse is running in his full career."

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 public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. "An impartial view of his whole career."

(Falconry) The flight of a hawk.

verb

Career v. i. (past & past part. careered; pres. part. careering) To move or run rapidly. "Careering gayly over the curling waves."

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Etymology of 'Career'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Career" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a few men who would not leave me. I hoped to remain until night, when I intended to try to get to Hell Gate and cross the Sound; but about 3 o'clock in the afternoon was discovered by a party of Hessians and obliged to surrender—thus ended the career of that day. ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

... more casual than with any other of "The Seven." From the outset of my career I made it a rule never to deal with understrappers, always to get in touch with the man who had the final say. Thus, as the years went by, I grew into intimacy with the great men of finance where many with better natural ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... would have been utterly destroyed, while Moltke grumbles because it has not been destroyed; an achievement which this talented captain somewhat singularly imagines would fittingly crown his military career. But this is not the only domestic jar which destroys the harmony of the happy German family at Versailles. In Prussia it has been the habit, from time immemorial, for the heir to the throne to coquet with the Liberals, and to be supposed to ...

— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere

... above their knees, Maids of noblest families, In the swift dance blindly wheeling, Circle in their wild career Round the steer, - Kettledrums ...

— Pike County Ballads and Other Poems • John Hay

... Pottinger's later career some idea may be gathered from a letter which Prosper received a year after his marriage. "Circumstances," wrote Mrs. Pottinger, "which had induced me to accept the offer of a widower to take care of his motherless ...

— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte

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