mid-careern.adj.
/mɪdkəˈrɪə/, U.S. /ˌmɪdkəˈrɪ(ə)r/ A. n.
1.
a. The middle of a dash or bolt.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > state of advancement towards completion
towardness1475
forwardness1523
advancement1540
onwardness1548
towardliness1553
prolation1610
forwardliness1647
mid-career1720
advolution1883
1720 W. Congreve Impossible Thing 16 The Clown aloft, who lent an Ear, Strait stopt him short in mid Career. And louder cry'd, Ho! honest Friend.
1837 W. Irving Widow's Ordeal in Magnolia 273 He sees their concussion, man to man, and horse to horse, in mid career.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. xi. 207 Souls which have been arrested in mid-career by the heart-searching voice of God.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid iii. 67 Night, driven on by the hours, was not yet in mid-career.
1998 P. Muldoon Hay 3 The she-goat was walking on air, Bounding, vaulting, pausing in mid-career To browse on a sprig of the myrtle.
b. The middle of proceedings or a course of conduct, argument, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > middle or centre
middleeOE
mideOE
midwardOE
middleheada1325
pointc1330
midsa1382
meanc1390
middleward1431
midstc1450
centrea1500
centrya1535
navel1604
umbilic1607
meditullium1611
half-way1634
umbrila1636
amidst1664
eye1671
umbil1688
omphalos1845
mid-career1911
middle-middle1926
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 5 646 The Swiss Government undertook the investigation of these disturbances; but proceedings were suddenly terminated in mid-career.
1920 Philos. Rev. 29 21 Idealism does not proceed by evading these facts. On the contrary, it objects that naturalism has..broken off its argument in mid-career.
1989 Jrnl. Philos. 86 340 This in fact is the traditional resolution of..sharing out the stake between the participants on a fair game that is stopped in mid-career.
2. The middle of one's working life.
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1903 H. James Ambassadors v. x. 145 After an earlier time in his native Rome, he had migrated, in mid-career, to Paris.
1928 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 38 337 Occasionally a warning of an unforgettable kind checks a strenuous worker in mid-career.
1961 Canad. Lit. 10 17 In mid-career, MacLennan is still clearly developing as a novelist.
1995 Daily Mail 19 Oct. 22/3 In mid-career he had been diagnosed as having crippling condition called pedalostitis.
B. adj.
Relating to the middle of a person's working life; that has reached such a point.
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1916 H. J. Ford Woodrow Wilson xii. 297 (heading) A mid-career appreciation.
1981 R. G. Myers Connecting Worlds 65 A workshop in which a large group of young and mid-career educational researchers and planners met.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 19 Oct. 3/2 The Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association is calling for the new maximum for the standard scale of £19,600 and proper rewards for mid-career teachers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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