| career | |
| 1. n. One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession. | |
| 2. n. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it. | |
| Washington's career as a soldier | |
| 3. n. (archaic) speed | |
| 4. n. A jouster's path during a joust. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. | |
| 6. n. (falconry) The flight of a hawk. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over. | |
| 8. v. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. | |
| The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge. | |
