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career
noun
1 career
The particular occupation for which you are trained.
synonyms: calling, vocation.
Roget 692:
conduct
[actions of an individual agent];
behavior;
deportment,
comportment;
carriage,
maintien†,
demeanor,
guise,
bearing,
manner,
observance.
dealing,
transaction
etc.
(action)
680;
business
etc.
625.
tactics,
game,
game plan,
policy,
polity;
generalship,
statesmanship,
seamanship;
strategy,
strategics†;
plan
etc.
626.
management;
husbandry;
housekeeping,
housewifery;
stewardship;
menage;
regime;
economy,
economics;
political economy;
government
etc.
(direction)
693.
execution,
manipulation,
treatment,
campaign,
career,
life,
course,
walk,
race,
record.
course of conduct,
line of conduct,
line of action,
line of proceeding;
role;
process,
ways,
practice,
procedure,
modus operandi,
MO,
method of operating;
method
&c.;
path
etc.
627.
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Roget 625:
business,
occupation,
employment;
pursuit
etc.
622;
what one is doing,
what one is about;
affair,
concern,
matter,
case.
matter in hand,
irons in the fire;
thing to do,
agendum,
task,
work,
job,
chore [U.S.],
errand,
commission,
mission,
charge,
care;
duty
etc.
926.
part,
role,
cue;
province,
function,
lookout,
department,
capacity,
sphere,
orb,
field,
line;
walk,
walk of life;
beat,
round,
routine;
race,
career.
office,
place,
post,
chargeship†,
incumbency,
living;
situation,
berth,
employ;
service
etc.
(servitude)
749;
engagement;
undertaking
etc.
676.
vocation,
calling,
profession,
cloth,
faculty;
industry,
art;
industrial arts;
craft,
mystery,
handicraft;
trade
etc.
(commerce)
794.
exercise;
work
etc.
(action)
680;
avocation;
press of business
etc.
(activity)
682.
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Dutch: roeping
Polish: apostolat, powołanie, wola boża, przeznaczenie, misja, apostolstwo, posłannictwo
2 career
The general progression of your working or professional life:
— The general had had a distinguished career.
— He had a long career in the law.
synonym: life history.
Dutch: loopbaan, carrière
Polish: kariera
verb
1 career
Move headlong at high speed.
Moby thesaurus: Brownian movement, accomplished, advance, advancement, advancing, angular motion, art, ascending, ascent, at concert pitch, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, blunder, bolt, business, calling, careen, career building, careerism, chase, climbing, clip, coached, conversant, course, craft, current, dart, dash, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, employment, falter, finished, flight, fling, flounce, flounder, flow, flux, fly, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, furtherance, furthering, gait, game, go-ahead, handicraft, haste, hasten, headway, hie, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, initiate, initiated, job, labor, lick, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, livelihood, lurch, make haste, march, metier, mission, mounting, mystery, number, oblique motion, occupation, ongoing, onrush, onward course, pace, passage, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, plunging, post, practice, practiced, prepared, primed, profession, professional, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, pursuit, race, racket, radial motion, random motion, rate, reel, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, retrogression, rising, rock, roll, rolling, rolling on, run, rush, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, seethe, set, shoot, sideward motion, sinking, skedaddle, skilled, soaring, specialization, specialty, speed, stagger, step, step on it, sternway, stream, stride, struggle, stumble, subsiding, sway, swing, tear, technical, thrash about, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trade, trained, traject, trajet, travel, tread, trend, tumble, upward motion, vocation, walk, walk of life, wallop, wallow, way, welter, work, zoom ... show more.
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