Definizione monolingua

career

career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)

1. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

   The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.

   • 2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, BBC Sport:

     However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.

career (plural careers)

1. Ones calling in life; a persons occupation; ones profession.
2. An individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.
3. (archaic) speed
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy

     It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.

4. A jousters path during a joust.
   • 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.

5. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:

     It is said of Cæsar [...], that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.

Definizione dizionario career

	carriera
	one's calling in life; a person's occupation
	An individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.

professione

mestiere

pista

Altri significati:

an individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan

A jouster's path during a joust.

to move rapidly straight ahead

(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th-18th c.]

One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.

a jouster's path during a joust

To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way

(archaic) speed