[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

career \career"\, v. i. imp.  p. p. careered 3; p. pr. 
   vb. n. careering
   to move or run rapidly.
   1913 webster

         careering gayly over the curling waves.  --w. irving.
   1913 webster
see also:
careered careering 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

career \career"\, n. f. carri`ere 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
see also:
car 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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"
see also:
calling vocation life history 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

177 moby thesaurus words for "career":
   brownian movement, accomplished, advance, advancement, advancing,
   angular motion, art, ascending, ascent, at concert pitch,
   axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, blunder, bolt,
   business, calling, careen, career building, careerism, chase,
   climbing, clip, coached, conversant, course, craft, current, dart,
   dash, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage,
   ebbing, employment, falter, finished, flight, fling, flounce,
   flounder, flow, flux, fly, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding,
   furtherance, furthering, gait, game, go-ahead, handicraft, haste,
   hasten, headway, hie, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, initiate,
   initiated, job, labor, lick, lifework, line, line of business,
   line of work, livelihood, lurch, make haste, march, metier,
   mission, mounting, mystery, number, oblique motion, occupation,
   ongoing, onrush, onward course, pace, passage, pitch,
   pitch and plunge, plunge, plunging, post, practice, practiced,
   prepared, primed, profession, professional, progress, progression,
   progressiveness, promotion, pursuit, race, racket, radial motion,
   random motion, rate, reel, reflowing, refluence, reflux,
   regression, retrogression, rising, rock, roll, rolling, rolling on,
   run, rush, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle,
   seethe, set, shoot, sideward motion, sinking, skedaddle, skilled,
   soaring, specialization, specialty, speed, stagger, step,
   step on it, sternway, stream, stride, struggle, stumble, subsiding,
   sway, swing, tear, technical, thrash about, toss, toss and tumble,
   toss and turn, totter, trade, trained, traject, trajet, travel,
   tread, trend, tumble, upward motion, vocation, walk, walk of life,
   wallop, wallow, way, welter, work, zoom

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