career

About 42.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.
2. noun The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.

   Washington’s career as a soldier

3. noun The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
4. noun Speed.
5. noun A jouster's path during a joust.
6. noun A short gallop of a horse. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
7. noun The flight of a hawk.
8. noun A racecourse; the ground run over.

Similar words

vocation life history calling occupational occupation vocational professional employment assignment professionally

Often followed by

of in as and was development is with at

Word family

at full career careered careering careers in full career