From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
career
n 1: the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn:
calling, vocation]
2: the general progression of your working or professional
life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he
had a long career in the law" [syn: life history]
v : move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the
road"; "The mob careered through the streets"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Career \Ca*reer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Careered 3; p. pr. &
vb. n. Careering]
To move or run rapidly.
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Careering gayly over the curling waves. --W. Irving.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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To go back again the same career. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. A running; full speed; a rapid course.
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When a horse is running in his full career.
--Wilkins.
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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.
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An impartial view of his whole career. --Macaulay.
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4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk.
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