an occupation or profession, esp. one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
2.
a person's progress or general course of action through life or through a phase of life, as in some profession or undertaking: His career as a soldier ended with the armistice.
3.
success in a profession, occupation, etc.
4.
a course, esp. a swift one.
5.
speed, esp. full speed: The horse stumbled in full career.
6.
Archaic. a charge at full speed.
–verb (used without object)
7.
to run or move rapidly along; go at full speed.
–adjective
8.
having or following a career; professional: a career diplomat.
Origin: 1525–35; < MF carriere < OPr carriera lit., road < LL carrāria (via) vehicular (road), equiv. to L carr(us) wagon (see car1) + -āria, fem. of -ārius-ary
The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements: an officer with a distinguished career; a teacher in the midst of a long career.
A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
Speed: "My hasting days fly on with full career"(John Milton).
adj. Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework: career diplomats; a career criminal. intr.v.
ca·reered, ca·reer·ing, ca·reers To move or run at full speed; rush. See Usage Note at careen.
[French carrière, from Old French, racecourse, from Old Provençal carriera, street, from Medieval Latin (via) carrāria, (road) for carts, feminine of carrārius, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
[kuh-reer] 
