Definition of career
- Washington's career as a soldier
- a career in medicine
- a career diplomat
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She hopes to pursue a career in medicine.
My career as a waitress lasted one day.
During his long career in advertising he won numerous awards and honors.
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she careered off to the class she'd almost forgotten
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barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, chase, course, dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom;
dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, hang (around or out), lag, linger, loiter, poke, tarry;
dart, flit, scamper, scud, scuffle;
stampede, streak, whiz (or whizz);
accelerate, quicken, step out;
catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake;
beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it;
: a job or profession that someone does for a long time
: a period of time spent in a job or profession
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