Career

Career
Career Ca*reer", n. [F. carri[`e]re race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See {Car}.] 1. A race course: the ground run over. [1913 Webster]

To go back again the same career. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. [1913 Webster]

When a horse is running in his full career. --Wilkins. [1913 Webster]

3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. [1913 Webster]

An impartial view of his whole career. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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