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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#m1)

2) Your career at school is your time there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#m2)

3) To career is to move fast and out of control: the bike careered down the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#m3)

4) A career can also be a wild, fast rush forward that you cannot control. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#x1)
- Careers day helped me think about jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#x2)
- Grandpa had a long career as a train driver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#x3)
- Dad changed careers and became a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#x4)
- The runaway trolley careered across the car park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#x5)
- The footballer's career ended after his injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#x6)
- Far in advance, Moti continued his wild career. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/13/)
- ["Taking a career break" means not working for a while, often because there is no job.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/6/)
- [Most professional footballers retire in their 30s, and many outside the top leagues earn ordinary wages and need a second career.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «career» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/career/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.