career

«career» in Mova's school dictionary: the job or kind of work someone does for a long part of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a career, careers); verb (career, careers, careered, careering)

meaning for a pupil

1) A career is the job or kind of work someone does for a long part of their life, often getting better at it. tree →

2) Your career at school is your time there. tree →

3) To career is to move fast and out of control: the bike careered down the hill. tree →

4) A career can also be a wild, fast rush forward that you cannot control. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in careers lessons and careers days, talk about grown-ups' jobs («a career in nursing»), and in stories for wild movement.

examples

• She wants a career as a vet. tree →
• Careers day helped me think about jobs. tree →
• Grandpa had a long career as a train driver. tree →
• Dad changed careers and became a teacher. tree →
• The runaway trolley careered across the car park. tree →
• The footballer's career ended after his injury. tree →
• Far in advance, Moti continued his wild career. tree →

note

Stress: ca-REER. US spells it the same. Do not confuse with «carer» (someone who looks after a sick person) or «courier».

In the corpora

• Animators work on films, TV, games, adverts and apps, often in big teams; it is a real career.
• "Taking a career break" means not working for a while, often because there is no job.
• Most professional footballers retire in their 30s, and many outside the top leagues earn ordinary wages and need a second career.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «career» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.