career

Etymology
Mid 16th century, from, from , from , from based on , ultimately from , from ; alternatively, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
 * 2) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
 * 3)  Speed.
 * 4) A jouster's path during a joust.
 * 5)  A short gallop of a horse.
 * 6) * 1756, (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by )
 * Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
 * 1)  The flight of a hawk.
 * 2)  A racecourse; the ground run over.
 * 1) A jouster's path during a joust.
 * 2)  A short gallop of a horse.
 * 3) * 1756, (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by )
 * Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
 * 1)  The flight of a hawk.
 * 2)  A racecourse; the ground run over.
 * 1)  The flight of a hawk.
 * 2)  A racecourse; the ground run over.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: акариера
 * Albanian: karierë
 * Arabic: مِهْنَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: karyera,
 * Belarusian: кар'е́ра
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: karriere
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: karjäär
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კარიერა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: કારકિર્દી
 * Hebrew: קריירה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: мансап
 * Khmer:, អាជីវ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: мансап
 * Lao: ອາຊີບ
 * Latvian: karjera
 * Lithuanian: karjera
 * Macedonian: кариера
 * Malay: karier, kerjaya
 * Maori: umanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: karriere
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots: career
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каријера
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kariéra
 * Slovene: kariera
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: karera, karera
 * Tajik: касб, мартаба
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кар'є́ра
 * Urdu: مَشْغَلَہ, کیریئر
 * Uzbek: karyera, ,
 * Vietnamese: (藝業)


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קריירה
 * Ido:
 * Irish: réim
 * Japanese: ,
 * Malay: kerjaya
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: karriere
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: кар’є́ра


 * Bulgarian:
 * Russian:


 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: кар’є́р

Verb

 * 1) To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, hnát se
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Portuguese:

Adjective

 * 1) doing something professionally, for a living

Etymology
From.