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career

noun

1 he spent three years training for a business career:

profession, occupation, vocation, calling, employment, job, day job, line, line of work, walk of life, position, post, sphere;

French métier.

2 these unions had had a chequered career:

existence, life, progress, course, progression, passage, path.

adjective

a career politician:

professional, permanent, full-time, committed.

verb

he saw the runaway pram careering down the hill:

rush, hurtle, streak, shoot, race, bolt, dash, speed, run, gallop, stampede, cannon, careen, whizz, buzz, zoom, flash, blast, charge, hare, fly, wing, pelt, scurry, scud, go like the wind;

informal belt, scoot, scorch, tear, skedaddle, zap, zip, whip, burn rubber, go like a bat out of hell;

British, informal bomb, bucket, shift;

North American, informal hightail, clip, boogie.

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