Career \Ca*reer"\, n. [F. carri[`e]re race course, high road,
street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car.]
1. A race course: the ground run over.
To go back again the same career. --Sir P.
Sidney.
2. A running; full speed; a rapid course.
When a horse is running in his full career.
--Wilkins.
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.
An impartial view of his whole career. --Macaulay.
4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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