Antonyms for career
kəˈrɪərca·reer

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. career

   A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

   If you will use the lance, take ground for your career.... The four horsemen met in full career.

   Scott Quentin Durward ch. 14, p. 194. [D. F. & CO.]

   In its figurative use career signifies some continuous and conspicuous work, usually a life-work, and most frequently one of honorable achievement. Compare BUSINESS.

   Synonyms:
   charge, course, flight, line of achievement, passage, public life, race, rush

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. career

   Antonyms:
   misproceeding, misdeportment, unsuccess, miscarriage

   Synonyms:
   course, success, walk, line, progress, history, race

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1. • Occupation
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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. career, calling, vocationnoun

   the particular occupation for which you are trained

   Synonyms:
   occupational group, life history, calling, vocation

2. career, life historyverb

   the general progression of your working or professional life

   "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law"

   Synonyms:
   life story, life history, calling, life, vocation, biography

3. careerverb

   move headlong at high speed

   "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets"

How to use career in a sentence?

1. Jerry Nadler:

   President Trump dangled this pardon to encourage Flynn to backtrack on his pledge to cooperate with federal investigatorscooperation that might have exposed the Presidents own wrongdoing. And it worked, flynn broke his deal, recanted his plea, received the backing of the Attorney General over the objections of career prosecutors, and now has secured a pardon from the President of the United States.

2. Joe Pounder:

   Another day, another flip-flop from Sen. Ted Cruz, only a few months ago, Sen. Cruz used his opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard calling for it to be phased out before 2022 as a prime example of him not being a career politician. Today, he changed his position.

3. Ashraf Abdelkader:

   She did not want to get married, she wanted to follow her career... and wanted to be a flight attendant.

4. Kit Harington:

   It was emotional to leave the job, definitely, but I wouldn't say I was sad : If, like me, you go all the way back to the pilot of' Game of Thrones,' that's almost 10 years of your life. That's really unusual in an actor's career.

5. Bryan Habana:

   The best moment of my career was getting the opportunity to pull on the Springbok jersey for the first time and run out for my country, to understand the privilege that it was, and to understand the responsibility that was bestowed on me to do that.

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