careern.

Brit.

/kəˈrɪə/, U.S.

/kəˈrɪ(ə)r/

Forms: 1500s–1600s carriere, careere, (1500s carerie, carire, careire, carrir(e), 1500s–1700s carier(e, carrier, carreer, 1600s carrere, carere, ( carrear, carreere, carreir, careir), 1500s– career.

Etymology: < French carrière racecourse; also career, in various senses; = Italian carriera, Provençal carriera, Spanish carrera road, carrer < late Latin carrāria (via) carriage-road, road, < carrus wagon. The normal Central French representation of late Latin carraria is Old French charriere, still usual in the dialects; it is not clear whether carrière is northern, or influenced by Italian or Provençal.

†1.

a. The ground on which a race is run, a racecourse; (also) the space within the barrier at a tournament.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers

listc1386

champany?a1400

rangec1440

jousting-place1480

tilt?1507

tilt-yard1528

barracec1540

barrier1581

careera1586

steccado1600

tilting-yard1606

tilting ground1850

tilting field1859

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun]

careera1586

lists1601

hippodrome1750

horse-course1751

racecourse1764

racetrack1830

flat1870

raceway1910

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xvi. sig. Rr5 It was fitte for him to go to the other ende of the Career.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Carriere, or Carrier, or Career, in the Manage, a Place inclos'd with a Barrier, wherein they run the Ring.

b. transferred. The course over which any person or thing passes; road, path way. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] > course or direction of movement

runeeOE

runningOE

pathOE

wayOE

tracea1300

coursec1380

racec1390

recourse?c1425

situation1517

journey?a1560

track1565

roadway1600

career?1614

direction1665

by-run1674

sensea1679

meith1726

heading1841

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun]

lodeOE

wayOE

gatea1300

tracea1300

raik?c1350

coursec1380

racec1390

line1426

fairwayc1440

tradec1480

voye1541

tract1555

track1565

career?1614

?1614 W. Drummond Song: Phoebvs arise in Poems Rowse Memmons Mother..That shee thy [sc. Phœbus'] Careere may with Roses spred.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell ix. 117 In the carrere to Her mines.

1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 39 Since the Portuguais found out the carreer to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope.

†2.

a. Of a horse: A short gallop at full speed (often in to pass a career). Also a charge, encounter (at a tournament or in battle). Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > attack > charge > [noun] > on horseback

career1591

hippomachia1623

horse-charge1650

cavalry charge1872

shock-action1884

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament > encounter

coursec1325

enpraynt1490

shock1565

jostling1580

career1591

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop > short or sudden

manage1577

career1591

burst1789

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxviii. xxxv. 319 To stop, to start, to passe carier.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 142 The Lanciers..ought to know how to manage well a horse, run a good carrier, etc.

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 139 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Seven tall men..made sundry Carreers and brave Turnaments.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 203 To passe a Cariere, is but to runne with strength and courage such a conuenient course as is meete for his ability.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 766 Mortal combat or carreer with Lance.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Career,..is also us'd for the Horse-course it self, provided it don't exceed 200 Paces.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. xxvii. vi. 284 Horses..walking in state and running in full career.

†b. ‘The short turning of a nimble horse, now this way, nowe that way’ (Baret Alvearie); transferred a frisk, gambol. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > capering > a caper

gambol1509

gamond?a1513

frisco?1520

frisk1525

friscal1570

caprettie?1578

career1587

stotc1590

lavoltaa1592

caper1592

gambado1618

prance1648

capriccio1665

gambade1803

caper-cut1875

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > leap > leaping or prancing

gambolling1525

curvetting1584

career1587

pranker1628

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 809/1 Manie a horsse raised on high with carrier, gallop, turne, and stop.

1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus vi. sig. D Careers and gambalds.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. i. 121 The King is a good King, but..he passes some humors, and carreeres .

a. By extension: A running, course (usually implying swift motion); formerly [like French carrière] applied spec. to the course of the sun or a star through the heavens. Also abstract: full speed, impetus. Chiefly in phrases like in full career, †to take, give (oneself or some thing) career, etc., which were originally terms of horsemanship (see 2).

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun]

runeeOE

coursec1290

draughta1325

careerc1534

addression1602

tendence1644

tendency1654

ducturea1674

traduction1675

headinga1855

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > a swift course

reseOE

careerc1534

whirry1611

whirla1657

with a run1834

rip1855

streaka1861

scoot1864

c1534 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 55 Theie..tooke privilie there carier abowte, and violentlie assailed the tents of there adversaries.

1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints xvi As ye see fell Boreas..To stop his wearie cáriere suddenly.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. L^v Giue roome and let vs haue this hot carerie.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 31 Dolphins..leape and bound with full carrere in the tumultuous waues.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 353 The Sun..was hasting now with prone carreer To th' Ocean Iles.

a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 268 Sooner may we..stop the Sun in his carriere.

1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 30 Vast torrents force a terrible career.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 114 Stretch onward in thy fleet career!

1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xvi. 137 Away we went in full career with the waves and the wind.

b. Hawking. (See quot. 1738.)

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1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Career, in falconry, is a flight or tour of the bird, about one hundred and twenty yards.

4. figurative (from 2 and 3) Rapid and continuous ‘course of action, uninterrupted procedure’ (Johnson); formerly also, The height, ‘full swing’ of a person's activity.

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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > continuous progress or advance of anything > rapid and continuous course of action

career1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 229 Shall quippes and sentences..awe a man from the carreere of his humor?

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. viii. 15 He takes a hundred times more cariere and libertie vnto himselfe, then he did for others.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 288 Stopping the Cariere Of Laughter, with a sigh.

1643 W. Burton tr. Alstedius Beloved City 57 Antichrist, in the full course and carrére of his happynesse.

1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 35 Swift as light Thoughts their empty Carriere run.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 389 Quickly stopt in his Careir of Vertue.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 174 Not to permit the reins to our passions, or give them their full carreer.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. viii. 75 A..beauty..in the height of her bloom, and the career of her conquests.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 599 In the full career of success.

a. A person's course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life), esp. when publicly conspicuous, or abounding in remarkable incidents: similarly with reference to a nation, a political party, etc.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] > course or way of life

wayeOE

lifeOE

train1580

career1803

1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 424 A more difficult negotiation than you have ever had in your diplomatic career.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 200 That great statesman's public career.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 7 A history..which records the career of France, Prussia, etc.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 40 Harold must go and make a career for himself.

1884 Contemp. Rev. 46 99 An artist, even in the humblest rank, had a career before him.

b. In modern language (after French carrière) frequently used for: A course of professional life or employment, which affords opportunity for progress or advancement in the world. Frequently attributive (originally U.S.), esp. (a) designating one who works permanently in the diplomatic service or other profession, opposed to one who enters it at a high level from elsewhere; (b) career girl, career woman, etc., one who works permanently in a profession, opposed to one who ceases full-time work on marrying. Also: careers master n. a schoolteacher who advises and helps pupils in choosing careers; similarly careers mistress n.

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society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun]

career1927

society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > woman

workwomana1382

operatrice1531

labouress1570

operatress1841

ouvrièrea1855

career woman1927

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [adjective] > working permanently in a profession

career1927

society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > other schoolteachers

gerund-grinder1710

hedge-schoolmaster1830

grammatist1850

discipline master1863

quizmaster1878

careers master1943

1927 Literary Digest 25 June 14/2 The foundation of any sound Foreign Service must consist of ‘career men’ who have become expert.

1931 F. J. Stimson My United States xviii. 190 The career professors look somewhat askance at one who comes in from the outside world—just as career secretaries in diplomacy do upon a chief who has not gone through all the grades.

1936 Yale Rev. 25 288 Other steps essential to a well-rounded career service remain to be taken... The prospect of permanent undersecretaryships for career men needs to be realized.

1937 Collier's Weekly 26 June 20 (heading) Career girl.

1937 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 9 Oct. 16/3 Most career women are different.

1943 Assistant Masters' Year Book 24 The Committee enables members who are careers masters to exchange information.

1947 Daily Mail 25 Aug. 2/3 (heading) Should the career woman make dates?

1951 R. Hoggart Auden vi. 200 The career-girl Rosetta yearns for her lush English landscape.

1954 F. P. Keyes Royal Box viii. 101 He might well have expected the offer of an embassy... It's only occasionally that they go to career diplomats like me.

1959 Times 15 Apr. 13/4 As careers mistress in a grammar school it is certainly not my habit.

1970 New Yorker 17 Oct. 167/1 Philip Habib, a competent, if unusually brusque, career diplomat.

Draft additions June 2017

career slam n. Sport (chiefly Tennis and Golf) a complete set of major championship titles won over the course of a player's career, rather than in a single calendar year. More fully career grand slam.

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1965 San Antonio (Texas) Express 29 July 3 f/3 Player..became only the third player ever to complete a career slam of golf's major championships.

1969 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. v. 6/1 Miss Lacoste has now secured a career grand slam by winning the women United States Open, and the British, Spanish and American amateur crowns.

1999 Garden City (Kansas) Telegram 22 May d 5/1 He knows all too well that a French Open victory would give him a career Grand Slam.

2010 D. Baggett Tennis & Philos. 45 As good as Agassi's [career] was, including his career Slam, Sampras's was better.

Draft additions 1993

career structure n. a recognized pattern of career development and advancement within a job or profession.

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society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > pattern of career development

career path1937

career structure1965

1965 New Statesman 7 May 707/2 Such a department..would have to have a long-term career structure.

1986 Professional Teacher Summer 4/3 The PAT paper..outlines the Association's standpoint on the five issues itemised in the panel's terms of reference: pay; career structure; career progression; conditions of service; and procedures for negotiation.

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career adviser n. (also career advisor) a person employed by a school, university, or other institution to offer advice on choosing a career or improving one's career prospects.

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1922 Approaching Fifteenth: 1908 in 1922 (Princeton Univ.) 278 He votes..For freshman study hour—Yes. For business course in Princeton—Yes. For a faculty career adviser—Yes.

1928 Los Angeles Times 13 Feb. ii. 4/4 The career advisers, or psychoanalysts, or folks who make a business of telling you how to so handle yourself that you'll rise from a $15 clerk to the vice-presidency of the whole blest plant.

1948 C. B. Newling in J. F. Hurley Sydney 32 Every school has a Career Adviser to guide the pupils in the choice of a vocation.

1974 New Scientist 28 Feb. 584/1 (advt.) Students at present at university..may obtain information on other, similar CEGB research opportunities from their career advisers.

1994 Training & Devel. July 10/3 They expect the growing population of displaced workers to hike demand for career advisors.

2008 P. A. Gore & A. J. Metz in V. N. Gordon et al. Acad. Advising (ed. 2) vii. 104 An excellent discussion of the similarities and differences between career advisors and career counselors.

2011 D. E. Harmon Careers in Internet Security iii. 31 Career advisers point to a growing need for Internet security professionals.

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career break n. originally U.S. a change or hiatus in one's working life; esp. (a) originally Film a professional breakthrough; an opportunity that establishes one as a success; (b) a change of career; the start of a new job in a field unrelated to one's former occupation; (c) a period of time away from work, esp. to start or raise a family.

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1940 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 8 May 11 Martha is not really complaining. This assignment with Cary Grant is a big career break for her.

1962 Los Angeles Times 10 June a13/3 (advt.) Make your own career breaks... You can master your own fate, and find higher income with greater job satisfaction.

1968 Times 11 Nov. 7/5 Women in fact need more than equality where education and training are concerned, to counterbalance the long career breaks that most of them have to take when looking after children.

1976 Economist 29 May 87/3 In a midlife career break, he hit trouble trying to run a college.

1980 Washington Post 8 Nov. b4 His decisive career break came in ‘The Great Escape’.

1995 Sci. & Public Affairs Winter 46/2 There are..re-entry fellowships to help scientists resume their work after a career break.

2008 Independent 12 Jan. (Traveller section) 7/4 The most apple-cheeked, blonde American hay-slinger in the tack room was Debbie, a London solicitor on a career break.

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careers adviser n. (also careers advisor) chiefly British = career adviser n. at Additions.

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1937 C. A. Oakley in C. A. Oakley & A. Macrae Handbk. Vocational Guidance ii. 37 Careers-advisers are at present using lists of traits which they believe they can assess fairly satisfactorily without the use of tests.

1956 Internat. Rev. Educ. 2 402 Principals and careers advisers, moreover, give advice to parents and pupils in the selection of appropriate courses.

1998 Marketing 5 Feb. 59 There is a major hurdle to overcome and that is the university or college careers advisor.

2007 Economist 18 Aug. 28/1 A careers adviser at Oxford University.

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career path n. originally U.S. the series of jobs or roles that constitute a person's career, esp. those that enable someone to advance in a particular field.

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society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > pattern of career development

career path1937

career structure1965

1937 Southwest Rev. 22 141 She had literary fame and a career-path already outlined when she came to Santa Fe.

1963 Pittsburgh Press 10 Sept. 15/5 [He] started out with aspirations for the concert stage. But..his career path was detoured.

2014 Meg May 99/1 Young adults who've just started working experience a difficult state called career paralysis. It is when they get stuck in a place of indecision because of fear of taking the wrong career path.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

careerv.

Brit.

/kəˈrɪə/, U.S.

/kəˈrɪ(ə)r/

Forms: For forms see career n.

†1. intransitive. To take a short gallop, to ‘pass a career’; to charge (at a tournament); to turn this way and that in running (said of a horse); also figurative. Also transitive with cognate object. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)] > actions

uttera1578

career1594

course1596

to break across-

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > gallop > make short or sudden dash

career1594

to go off (set off, start) at score1807

to keep on at a score1807

rocket1862

to go off full score1900

1594 Willobie his Auisa xviii. f. 18 Shamelesse Callets may be found; That..can carire the whoores rebound, To straine at first, and after yeeld.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 632/1 His horse of a fierce courage carreird as he went.

1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 44 How we Tilt and Carrier.

2. transferred and figurative. To gallop, run or move at full speed. (Also to career it.)

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] > go at full speed

to burn the earth or windc1275

streekc1380

career1647

streak1768

streak1834

score1858

to go eyes out1863

to go for the doctor1907

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 77 If's tongue doth not carreer't above his witt.

1679 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 248 Episcopie must quit the cause, And let old Jack carrear boys.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc i. 368 When Desolation royally careers Over thy wretched country.

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. iv. 95 The little Julian was careering about the room for the amusement of his infant friend.

1851 Househ. Narrative 13 Two heavy seas..careered towards one another.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 100 Sap..Careering through a tree.

3. transitive. To make (a horse) career.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > ride (a horse) rapidly

runc1275

start1488

course1569

career1829

1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada (1856) lxxxiii. 450 A Moor is born..to career the steed..and launch the javelin.

4. To move swiftly over. (Cf. ‘run the streets’.)

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > cause to move swiftly [verb (transitive)] > move swiftly over

overspinnera1522

fly1589

overpost1600

course1793

career1830

1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 47 In living clouds careering the expanse, These fleck the firmament.

Derivatives

caˈreerer n.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > one who or that which moves swiftly

goera1586

fast-goera1628

seven-league boots1707

flyer1795

careerer1844

racehorse1854

pacer1878

spinner1881

running mate1891

wind-splitter1893

speedster1927

swiftie1945

fastie1983

1844 Blackwood's Mag. 691 Careerers of the skies!

caˈreering n. and adj.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective] > going at full speed

careering1599

full speed1890

full out1920

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > moving swiftly > going at full speed

careering1599

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 30 The carreeringest billow.

1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vii. 61 All..fall to plunging and careering.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 756 Careering Fires.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 156 The mad careering of the storm.

1842 T. De Quincey Mod. Greece in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 123/1 Huge careering leaps.

caˈreeringly adv.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adverb] > at full speed

full drive1662

full bore1756

careeringly1832

1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 272 I came down waveringly, careeringly, flourishingly.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	career
释义	careern. Brit. /kəˈrɪə/, U.S. /kəˈrɪ(ə)r/ Forms: 1500s–1600s carriere, careere, (1500s carerie, carire, careire, carrir(e), 1500s–1700s carier(e, carrier, carreer, 1600s carrere, carere, ( carrear, carreere, carreir, careir), 1500s– career. Etymology: < French carrière racecourse; also career, in various senses; = Italian carriera, Provençal carriera, Spanish carrera road, carrer < late Latin carrāria (via) carriage-road, road, < carrus wagon. The normal Central French representation of late Latin carraria is Old French charriere, still usual in the dialects; it is not clear whether carrière is northern, or influenced by Italian or Provençal. †1. a. The ground on which a race is run, a racecourse; (also) the space within the barrier at a tournament. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers listc1386 champany?a1400 rangec1440 jousting-place1480 tilt?1507 tilt-yard1528 barracec1540 barrier1581 careera1586 steccado1600 tilting-yard1606 tilting ground1850 tilting field1859 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun] careera1586 lists1601 hippodrome1750 horse-course1751 racecourse1764 racetrack1830 flat1870 raceway1910 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xvi. sig. Rr5 It was fitte for him to go to the other ende of the Career. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Carriere, or Carrier, or Career, in the Manage, a Place inclos'd with a Barrier, wherein they run the Ring. b. transferred. The course over which any person or thing passes; road, path way. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] > course or direction of movement runeeOE runningOE pathOE wayOE tracea1300 coursec1380 coursec1380 racec1390 recourse?c1425 situation1517 journey?a1560 track1565 roadway1600 career?1614 direction1665 by-run1674 sensea1679 meith1726 heading1841 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] lodeOE wayOE gatea1300 tracea1300 raik?c1350 coursec1380 coursec1380 racec1390 line1426 fairwayc1440 tradec1480 voye1541 tract1555 track1565 career?1614 ?1614 W. Drummond Song: Phoebvs arise in Poems Rowse Memmons Mother..That shee thy [sc. Phœbus'] Careere may with Roses spred. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell ix. 117 In the carrere to Her mines. 1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 39 Since the Portuguais found out the carreer to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. †2. a. Of a horse: A short gallop at full speed (often in to pass a career). Also a charge, encounter (at a tournament or in battle). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > charge > [noun] > on horseback career1591 hippomachia1623 horse-charge1650 cavalry charge1872 shock-action1884 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament > encounter coursec1325 enpraynt1490 shock1565 jostling1580 career1591 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop > short or sudden manage1577 career1591 burst1789 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxviii. xxxv. 319 To stop, to start, to passe carier. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 142 The Lanciers..ought to know how to manage well a horse, run a good carrier, etc. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 139 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Seven tall men..made sundry Carreers and brave Turnaments. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 203 To passe a Cariere, is but to runne with strength and courage such a conuenient course as is meete for his ability. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 766 Mortal combat or carreer with Lance. View more context for this quotation 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Career,..is also us'd for the Horse-course it self, provided it don't exceed 200 Paces. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. xxvii. vi. 284 Horses..walking in state and running in full career. †b. ‘The short turning of a nimble horse, now this way, nowe that way’ (Baret Alvearie); transferred a frisk, gambol. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > capering > a caper gambol1509 gamond?a1513 frisco?1520 frisk1525 friscal1570 caprettie?1578 career1587 stotc1590 lavoltaa1592 caper1592 gambado1618 prance1648 capriccio1665 gambade1803 caper-cut1875 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > leap > leaping or prancing gambolling1525 curvetting1584 career1587 pranker1628 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 809/1 Manie a horsse raised on high with carrier, gallop, turne, and stop. 1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus vi. sig. D Careers and gambalds. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. i. 121 The King is a good King, but..he passes some humors, and carreeres . View more context for this quotation 3. a. By extension: A running, course (usually implying swift motion); formerly [like French carrière] applied spec. to the course of the sun or a star through the heavens. Also abstract: full speed, impetus. Chiefly in phrases like in full career, †to take, give (oneself or some thing) career, etc., which were originally terms of horsemanship (see 2). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] runeeOE coursec1290 draughta1325 careerc1534 addression1602 tendence1644 tendency1654 ducturea1674 traduction1675 headinga1855 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > a swift course reseOE careerc1534 whirry1611 whirla1657 with a run1834 rip1855 streaka1861 scoot1864 c1534 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 55 Theie..tooke privilie there carier abowte, and violentlie assailed the tents of there adversaries. 1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints xvi As ye see fell Boreas..To stop his wearie cáriere suddenly. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. L^v Giue roome and let vs haue this hot carerie. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 31 Dolphins..leape and bound with full carrere in the tumultuous waues. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 353 The Sun..was hasting now with prone carreer To th' Ocean Iles. View more context for this quotation a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 268 Sooner may we..stop the Sun in his carriere. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 30 Vast torrents force a terrible career. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 114 Stretch onward in thy fleet career! 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xvi. 137 Away we went in full career with the waves and the wind. b. Hawking. (See quot. 1738.) ΚΠ 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Career, in falconry, is a flight or tour of the bird, about one hundred and twenty yards. 4. figurative (from 2 and 3) Rapid and continuous ‘course of action, uninterrupted procedure’ (Johnson); formerly also, The height, ‘full swing’ of a person's activity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > continuous progress or advance of anything > rapid and continuous course of action career1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 229 Shall quippes and sentences..awe a man from the carreere of his humor? View more context for this quotation 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. viii. 15 He takes a hundred times more cariere and libertie vnto himselfe, then he did for others. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 288 Stopping the Cariere Of Laughter, with a sigh. View more context for this quotation 1643 W. Burton tr. Alstedius Beloved City 57 Antichrist, in the full course and carrére of his happynesse. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 35 Swift as light Thoughts their empty Carriere run. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 389 Quickly stopt in his Careir of Vertue. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 174 Not to permit the reins to our passions, or give them their full carreer. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. viii. 75 A..beauty..in the height of her bloom, and the career of her conquests. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 599 In the full career of success. 5. a. A person's course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life), esp. when publicly conspicuous, or abounding in remarkable incidents: similarly with reference to a nation, a political party, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] > course or way of life wayeOE lifeOE train1580 career1803 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 424 A more difficult negotiation than you have ever had in your diplomatic career. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 200 That great statesman's public career. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 7 A history..which records the career of France, Prussia, etc. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 40 Harold must go and make a career for himself. 1884 Contemp. Rev. 46 99 An artist, even in the humblest rank, had a career before him. b. In modern language (after French carrière) frequently used for: A course of professional life or employment, which affords opportunity for progress or advancement in the world. Frequently attributive (originally U.S.), esp. (a) designating one who works permanently in the diplomatic service or other profession, opposed to one who enters it at a high level from elsewhere; (b) career girl, career woman, etc., one who works permanently in a profession, opposed to one who ceases full-time work on marrying. Also: careers master n. a schoolteacher who advises and helps pupils in choosing careers; similarly careers mistress n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] career1927 society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > woman workwomana1382 operatrice1531 labouress1570 operatress1841 ouvrièrea1855 career woman1927 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [adjective] > working permanently in a profession career1927 society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > other schoolteachers gerund-grinder1710 hedge-schoolmaster1830 grammatist1850 discipline master1863 quizmaster1878 careers master1943 1927 Literary Digest 25 June 14/2 The foundation of any sound Foreign Service must consist of ‘career men’ who have become expert. 1931 F. J. Stimson My United States xviii. 190 The career professors look somewhat askance at one who comes in from the outside world—just as career secretaries in diplomacy do upon a chief who has not gone through all the grades. 1936 Yale Rev. 25 288 Other steps essential to a well-rounded career service remain to be taken... The prospect of permanent undersecretaryships for career men needs to be realized. 1937 Collier's Weekly 26 June 20 (heading) Career girl. 1937 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 9 Oct. 16/3 Most career women are different. 1943 Assistant Masters' Year Book 24 The Committee enables members who are careers masters to exchange information. 1947 Daily Mail 25 Aug. 2/3 (heading) Should the career woman make dates? 1951 R. Hoggart Auden vi. 200 The career-girl Rosetta yearns for her lush English landscape. 1954 F. P. Keyes Royal Box viii. 101 He might well have expected the offer of an embassy... It's only occasionally that they go to career diplomats like me. 1959 Times 15 Apr. 13/4 As careers mistress in a grammar school it is certainly not my habit. 1970 New Yorker 17 Oct. 167/1 Philip Habib, a competent, if unusually brusque, career diplomat. Draft additions June 2017 career slam n. Sport (chiefly Tennis and Golf) a complete set of major championship titles won over the course of a player's career, rather than in a single calendar year. More fully career grand slam. ΚΠ 1965 San Antonio (Texas) Express 29 July 3 f/3 Player..became only the third player ever to complete a career slam of golf's major championships. 1969 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. v. 6/1 Miss Lacoste has now secured a career grand slam by winning the women United States Open, and the British, Spanish and American amateur crowns. 1999 Garden City (Kansas) Telegram 22 May d 5/1 He knows all too well that a French Open victory would give him a career Grand Slam. 2010 D. Baggett Tennis & Philos. 45 As good as Agassi's [career] was, including his career Slam, Sampras's was better. Draft additions 1993 career structure n. a recognized pattern of career development and advancement within a job or profession. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > pattern of career development career path1937 career structure1965 1965 New Statesman 7 May 707/2 Such a department..would have to have a long-term career structure. 1986 Professional Teacher Summer 4/3 The PAT paper..outlines the Association's standpoint on the five issues itemised in the panel's terms of reference: pay; career structure; career progression; conditions of service; and procedures for negotiation. Draft additions October 2011 career adviser n. (also career advisor) a person employed by a school, university, or other institution to offer advice on choosing a career or improving one's career prospects. ΚΠ 1922 Approaching Fifteenth: 1908 in 1922 (Princeton Univ.) 278 He votes..For freshman study hour—Yes. For business course in Princeton—Yes. For a faculty career adviser—Yes. 1928 Los Angeles Times 13 Feb. ii. 4/4 The career advisers, or psychoanalysts, or folks who make a business of telling you how to so handle yourself that you'll rise from a $15 clerk to the vice-presidency of the whole blest plant. 1948 C. B. Newling in J. F. Hurley Sydney 32 Every school has a Career Adviser to guide the pupils in the choice of a vocation. 1974 New Scientist 28 Feb. 584/1 (advt.) Students at present at university..may obtain information on other, similar CEGB research opportunities from their career advisers. 1994 Training & Devel. July 10/3 They expect the growing population of displaced workers to hike demand for career advisors. 2008 P. A. Gore & A. J. Metz in V. N. Gordon et al. Acad. Advising (ed. 2) vii. 104 An excellent discussion of the similarities and differences between career advisors and career counselors. 2011 D. E. Harmon Careers in Internet Security iii. 31 Career advisers point to a growing need for Internet security professionals. Draft additions October 2009 career break n. originally U.S. a change or hiatus in one's working life; esp. (a) originally Film a professional breakthrough; an opportunity that establishes one as a success; (b) a change of career; the start of a new job in a field unrelated to one's former occupation; (c) a period of time away from work, esp. to start or raise a family. ΚΠ 1940 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 8 May 11 Martha is not really complaining. This assignment with Cary Grant is a big career break for her. 1962 Los Angeles Times 10 June a13/3 (advt.) Make your own career breaks... You can master your own fate, and find higher income with greater job satisfaction. 1968 Times 11 Nov. 7/5 Women in fact need more than equality where education and training are concerned, to counterbalance the long career breaks that most of them have to take when looking after children. 1976 Economist 29 May 87/3 In a midlife career break, he hit trouble trying to run a college. 1980 Washington Post 8 Nov. b4 His decisive career break came in ‘The Great Escape’. 1995 Sci. & Public Affairs Winter 46/2 There are..re-entry fellowships to help scientists resume their work after a career break. 2008 Independent 12 Jan. (Traveller section) 7/4 The most apple-cheeked, blonde American hay-slinger in the tack room was Debbie, a London solicitor on a career break. Draft additions October 2011 careers adviser n. (also careers advisor) chiefly British = career adviser n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1937 C. A. Oakley in C. A. Oakley & A. Macrae Handbk. Vocational Guidance ii. 37 Careers-advisers are at present using lists of traits which they believe they can assess fairly satisfactorily without the use of tests. 1956 Internat. Rev. Educ. 2 402 Principals and careers advisers, moreover, give advice to parents and pupils in the selection of appropriate courses. 1998 Marketing 5 Feb. 59 There is a major hurdle to overcome and that is the university or college careers advisor. 2007 Economist 18 Aug. 28/1 A careers adviser at Oxford University. Draft additions December 2021 career path n. originally U.S. the series of jobs or roles that constitute a person's career, esp. those that enable someone to advance in a particular field. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > pattern of career development career path1937 career structure1965 1937 Southwest Rev. 22 141 She had literary fame and a career-path already outlined when she came to Santa Fe. 1963 Pittsburgh Press 10 Sept. 15/5 [He] started out with aspirations for the concert stage. But..his career path was detoured. 2014 Meg May 99/1 Young adults who've just started working experience a difficult state called career paralysis. It is when they get stuck in a place of indecision because of fear of taking the wrong career path. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). careerv. Brit. /kəˈrɪə/, U.S. /kəˈrɪ(ə)r/ Forms: For forms see career n. †1. intransitive. To take a short gallop, to ‘pass a career’; to charge (at a tournament); to turn this way and that in running (said of a horse); also figurative. Also transitive with cognate object. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)] > actions uttera1578 career1594 course1596 to break across- the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > gallop > make short or sudden dash career1594 to go off (set off, start) at score1807 to keep on at a score1807 rocket1862 to go off full score1900 1594 Willobie his Auisa xviii. f. 18 Shamelesse Callets may be found; That..can carire the whoores rebound, To straine at first, and after yeeld. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 632/1 His horse of a fierce courage carreird as he went. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 44 How we Tilt and Carrier. 2. transferred and figurative. To gallop, run or move at full speed. (Also to career it.) ΘΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] > go at full speed to burn the earth or windc1275 streekc1380 career1647 streak1768 streak1834 score1858 to go eyes out1863 to go for the doctor1907 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 77 If's tongue doth not carreer't above his witt. 1679 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 248 Episcopie must quit the cause, And let old Jack carrear boys. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc i. 368 When Desolation royally careers Over thy wretched country. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. iv. 95 The little Julian was careering about the room for the amusement of his infant friend. 1851 Househ. Narrative 13 Two heavy seas..careered towards one another. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 100 Sap..Careering through a tree. 3. transitive. To make (a horse) career. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > ride (a horse) rapidly runc1275 start1488 course1569 career1829 1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada (1856) lxxxiii. 450 A Moor is born..to career the steed..and launch the javelin. 4. To move swiftly over. (Cf. ‘run the streets’.) ΘΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > cause to move swiftly [verb (transitive)] > move swiftly over overspinnera1522 fly1589 overpost1600 course1793 career1830 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 47 In living clouds careering the expanse, These fleck the firmament. Derivatives caˈreerer n. ΘΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > one who or that which moves swiftly goera1586 fast-goera1628 seven-league boots1707 flyer1795 careerer1844 racehorse1854 pacer1878 spinner1881 running mate1891 wind-splitter1893 speedster1927 swiftie1945 fastie1983 1844 Blackwood's Mag. 691 Careerers of the skies! caˈreering n. and adj. ΘΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective] > going at full speed careering1599 full speed1890 full out1920 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > moving swiftly > going at full speed careering1599 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 30 The carreeringest billow. 1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vii. 61 All..fall to plunging and careering. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 756 Careering Fires. View more context for this quotation 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 156 The mad careering of the storm. 1842 T. De Quincey Mod. Greece in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 123/1 Huge careering leaps. caˈreeringly adv. ΘΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adverb] > at full speed full drive1662 full bore1756 careeringly1832 1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 272 I came down waveringly, careeringly, flourishingly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1534v.1594
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