CAREER

Meaning of CAREER in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a career move (= a decision that will improve the type of job you can do )

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It looked like a good career move, with the possibility of promotion later.

a professional career

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After retiring from sport, he began his professional career as a journalist.

a teaching career

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She began her teaching career at a school in inner London.

an academic career

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She wanted to pursue an academic career.

brilliant career

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He had a long and brilliant career .

career ambitions

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The course is designed to help you achieve your career ambitions.

career break

career coach

career counselor

career expectations (= someone's expectations about how well they will do in their job )

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People with low self-esteem usually have low career expectations.

career structure (= the way a profession is organized which allows you to move up and get better jobs )

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Teachers now have a proper career structure.

career woman

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independent career women

careers officer

career...spanned

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a career which spanned nearly 60 years

career...taking off

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Mimi became jealous when Jack’s career started taking off .

carved out...career

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She carved out a successful career in the film industry.

colourful history/past/career/life

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Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career.

destroy sb’s career

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She made one bad mistake and it destroyed her career.

further...career

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Alan had been using her to further his career .

meteoric...career

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The scandal ended his meteoric political career .

pursue a career

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You have to be dedicated to pursue a career in medicine.

sb's political career

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He is facing the biggest decision of his political career.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

academic

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I used to think about an academic career when I was a student.

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After college, they moved on to literary and academic careers and began a rightward march through the 1940s and 1950s.

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He began his academic career as a physiologist and pharmacologist.

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The administrative breakdown of components in the academic career are: research, teaching, and community service.

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In Petah Tikva my wife had just started a promising academic career .

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The usual reason for a woman aspiring to an academic career: how to combine it with motherhood.

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We look forward to meeting you and wish you every success in your academic career .

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The categories in the framework supposedly can be applied to academic careers , roles, and the works of particular scholars.

brilliant

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It's Jan's brilliant career that's the problem.

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His brilliant career as attorney lifted him into prominence and gave him acceptance as spokesman for the untouchables.

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Throughout his brilliant career with Airdrie, Newcastle, Chelsea and Derby, controversy followed his every move.

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After a brilliant student career at the Sorbonne he was called to the Paris Bar in 1926.

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It was to launch Pople on a brilliant international career .

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In 1921 Maitland's previously brilliant career ended in misfortune and tragedy.

distinguished

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At 51 minutes, it was one of Connors's swiftest defeats in his long and distinguished career .

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At fifty five Mr Pacey has had a full and distinguished career in the police force.

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Col. Sutherland is a Special Forces veteran who enjoyed a distinguished career .

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But attention was expected to centre on Sir Anthony, currently enjoying one of the best periods of his distinguished acting career .

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At this time, the earl, must have been nearing the end of his distinguished career .

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Miss Riley had a long and distinguished bookselling career over 65 years.

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Many have previous distinguished careers on fast jets in the Royal Air Force or in international long-haul operations.

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Joseph Thomas, engineer, was born in Roche and came to Looe to retire after a distinguished career .

early

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But this is one of the experiences that taught me very early in my career that I must do the opposite.

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Case in point: Compare current photographs of George Benson with pictures from early in his career .

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Among the cast of Pastoral was Pamela Chrimes, who was to be important in John's early career .

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The public also remembers Mr Ishihara's early career as a novelist.

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Little is known of Peter's early career .

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Hayek and political thought Friedrich von Hayek's early career was devoted entirely to economic theory.

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Greg's early career was spent with Hanson.

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In the early 1870s his career as a trade-union leader came to an end.

entire

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A version of a Donovan song longer than his entire career ?

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Just three years into his formal career as a choreographer, Alvin was discovering the law that would govern his entire career.

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No wonder; in her entire career in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it.

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But in an entire career , I never knew a judge who I believed was bribed by raw money.

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Why would anyone renounce their entire career just to boost their ego?

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Craft sociology can provide a full range of opportunities for writing during an entire career .

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What vindictive irony, to force Digby to sacrifice his entire career in transport over a railways announcement!

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Out of nowhere, for the first time in his entire career , he was investigated.

long

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Raffles was, however, to have a long career on the stage and in films.

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He describes in conversational style the ups and downs of his long career .

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At 51 minutes, it was one of Connors's swiftest defeats in his long and distinguished career .

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Reed has been scowling so long in his long career that it seems a natural repose for him.

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His long career for Somerset lasted from 1891 to 1910.

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Some have yet to choose their lifetime professions, while others have retired from long careers .

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Intermittently throughout his long career , Wagner attempted to formulate his aspirations in prose.

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Adler's long career linked past with present.

military

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Her attitude irritated Froebe more than anyone else's had ever done in his military career .

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Reeves continued his military career , was promoted to sergeant and was often stationed overseas while his wife remained in Copperas Cove.

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After a glittering military career , Des is ready for what will be a comparatively unexciting civilian life.

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He left a promising military career behind to join the priesthood.

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Court service now replaced his military career .

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A military career had fascinated the young Makarenko, though he disliked it and had to be discharged on account of poor eyesight.

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Its destruction marred the prince's reputation, and it marked the end of his military career .

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Money, military records, careers , anything shady, usual sort of thing.

new

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Now though she's carving out a new career as a fitness guru on the Big Breakfast.

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Siu and many others arrived with very little and out of necessity created new careers .

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It depicts the sad tale of a lavatory attendant, Jim, who reads newspapers to seek a new career .

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The bankrupt cattle barons dismissed thousands of hired hands, who were forced to find new careers .

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Now she's returned to start a new career ... and a new life.

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As stated in Chapter l, the managers embarked on their new careers focusing on the rights and privileges of management.

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You do not want to run the appreciable risk of making a bad mistake before your new career has really started.

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A journalist, who liked traveling, started a new career in her forties as a tour guide.

political

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Her rise had always been anticipated and when Mr Major secured the premiership her political career was more or less clinched.

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Sharif and Bhutto, opponents throughout their political careers , differ in other ways.

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Throughout his first term in office there was a series of battles between his political appointees and career bureaucrats.

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His platform is his life story and his political career .

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Both admitted that they had much in common with the Liberals, but both dreamt of political careers with the Conservatives.

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And if that man is married and a Catholic, his political career will wither and die.

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Yet, in so far as it constituted his baptism as a politician, it is crucial to an understanding of his political career .

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He started his 60-year political career by flirting with far-right youth organizations as a law student in Paris.

professional

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I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career .

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Obviously it is the pinnacle of anyone's professional career to captain their country.

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As young adults, each trains successfully for a professional career and enters that career.

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A professional career as such seemed out of the question; his only ambition in life was to be an artist.

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About one out of three expects to have a professional career .

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Higgins has now been fined a total of £17,700 during his tumultuous 18-year professional career .

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She had shown good judgment in consulting Lufkin about her professional career .

successful

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Good for Annabel, who had the sense to quit the circuit in good time and launch a successful new career .

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Schermer worked in newspapers and television for 37 years, retiring in 1993 to begin a successful art career .

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She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989.

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It was about the only glitch Cronkite suffered in his long and extraordinarily successful news anchoring career .

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Their previous cutter Vigilant was still going strong and it was hoped that Searcher would have an equally successful career .

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Since leaving the Army, he has built a successful second career solving civilian problems.

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Thus Hans Sloane began the thorough grounding on which he was to build his successful career .

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My friend the liberal won an upset victory and went on to a successful career in politics.

whole

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I think it is a pity that so many anglers are devoting their whole fishing careers to the one species.

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In my mind I wanted to stay a Giant my whole career .

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In many ways, it's the story of Enfield's whole comic career .

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Her whole career in faith pressed her toward the next moment.

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Is this the Rainbow for whose sake I have risked my whole career ?

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That puts a slant on my whole career .

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Your very first field landing could even turn out to be the most difficult field of your whole gliding career .

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Between now and then, his whole life and career could change.

■ NOUN

advancement

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For many young academics they provide the first step in the ladder of publications, now an essential requisite for career advancement .

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Working hard is a personal objective, to obtain job satisfaction and potential rewards of career advancement .

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That kind of curriculum vitae brings a reward in terms of career advancement , with the inevitable monetary gains.

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In Britain also, several types of paraprofessional training programmes have been developed that provide useful avenues for career advancement .

break

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It is vital that the education system should attract back women who have taken a career break to raise a family.

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But despite all the bonhomie about career breaks in the Nogales maquilas, Colantuoni says one thing is clear.

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His next big career break came about almost by accident.

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We already encourage job-shares, part-time working and career breaks and we are introducing home working.

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Employers who do not offer career breaks and childcare facilities may find themselves passed over in favour of employers who do.

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It has been written to meet the needs of those returning to work after a career break .

change

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Here are a couple of examples of people who made some interesting career changes .

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Not coincidentally, all three of them had been previously successful in the private sector and made major career changes in midlife.

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Start looking It's much easier to check out real career change possibilities that are available locally first.

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On the morning I flew overseas to attend a career seminar I heard a radio interview about career change .

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With a probable career change in the future, Melanee would be wise to limit her borrowing as much as possible.

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If you are wrong, the outcome could be a positive learning experience instead of a major career change .

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In addition, it is worth looking at shortage areas for jobs as a possible career change option.

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This conversation led to-her discussions about how I could work with this organization by conducting career change seminars.

development

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The need to develop systematic succession planning linked to individual career development . 9.

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This led to ongoing negotiations regarding the school board engaging me as a consultant to conduct inservice career development seminars.

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It is vital that the teaching profession has full confidence in the processes of career development and advancement.

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If I stayed on I would have to content myself with twenty-seven years of horizontal career development !

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We also began tracking the career developments of film-makers commissioned through New Directors.

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The thought of accepting horizontal career development for the next twenty or thirty years is a numbing thought.

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Employee discretion and expectation of skills and career development still applied, however.

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He continued to regret the limitation on his career development imposed by what he saw as his confinement to Art teaching.

ladder

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Secondary schools offered more rungs on the career ladder , but the chance of becoming a head teacher was much lower.

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Mentoring is a critical component of career success; neither men nor women can climb the career ladder without it.

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The problem seems to be that many women are having a tough time making their mark higher up the career ladder .

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Instead, they are looking for protection against anything that could disturb their quiet but steady progress up the career ladder .

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By Devoyrah Hogan Women's chances to climb the career ladder have been hard fought for.

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The career ladder is congested; prospects are generally poor and it's easy to get stuck.

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Each career group is in turn divided into four ranks, which constitute a self-contained career ladder .

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The permanent staff would lose the prospect of promotion to the highest rungs of their career ladder .

move

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As it turned out, this rejection of Hopper's advances was the wisest career move Nicholson ever made.

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The structural load which exists within seemingly minor career moves or internal transfers around the force is enormous.

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And it could so easily have been a suicidal career move .

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This may be particularly beneficial for those making a major career move within an organisation.

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Perhaps pretending to fall in love was merely a smart career move allowing you to diversify into pasturing.

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At twenty-five she had married a colonel, a career move , and divorced him three years later.

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Has a colleague just made an interesting career move ?

opportunity

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In fact, no one seems to know exactly where future career opportunities lie for this new breed.

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Sources of Additional Information Information about career opportunities as a budget analyst may be available from your State or local employment service.

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The greatest applause went to a young researcher who highlighted the poor career opportunities she faced.

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Many high school students know very little about the wide range of career opportunities available to them.

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Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities .

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It is not that they can not be well integrated even when career opportunities are quite different for them.

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This family carries out its child rearing and educating functions inevitably at the expense of career opportunities for women.

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Looking back, Frank knows he victimised himself and threw away a good career opportunity with a quality company. 2.

path

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The disappearance of predictable career paths means that all employees have to take more responsibility for planning their own careers.

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I draw on people from other regions in the company whose career paths I am not likely to cross any time soon.

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This is largely because of diversions in their career paths .

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Game participants were supposed to draw personality Cards and Subject Cards to aid them in searching out the right career path .

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The Banks promised them a career path which never materialised.

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Born in 1934, his career path was notable for its craggy leaps and reverses.

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He said that involvement in Association activities should not interfere with promotional prospects or a proper career path .

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And it limited bumping to one career path and based it primarily on performance ratings, not seniority.

progression

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There's no natural career progression to group finance director.

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His move to Baronsmead followed a fairly typical career progression .

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In return for your skills, we offer salaries as stated, a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity for career progression .

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Managing director of Aberdeen Airport at 33, she had not met any barrier to career progression .

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They are drop-outs from the mainstream of career progression .

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We shall explore the question of career progression more fully in Chapter 8.

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Jobs which are unattractive because of low pay, inadequate training, poor conditions and career progression paths will be hard to fill.

structure

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In October he announced negotiations to review all civil service wage and career structures dating back to 1946.

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I like to see a career structure in the company I work for 28.

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These will directly affect the career structure within the banks, causing distortions, blockages and a recorded division of labour.

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There is a shortage of suitable recruits in the diplomatic service, which offers varied experience abroad and a good career structure .

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Marsh and colleagues found that there was a clear and established career structure among the youths on the terraces.

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Proposed changes in the clinical career structure should make clinical nursing less of a poor relation in terms of financial recognition and status.

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Teachers will be guaranteed a proper salary and career structure .

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Soares, as Commander-in-Chief, urged the government to respond to military pressure for changes in pay and professional career structures .

woman

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A typical New York career woman .

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At least 44 percent admit straying into another man's bed, the majority of them thirtysomething career women .

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If you're unlucky, he ends up hating you for it and runs off with a dynamic career woman .

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That's what you get for being a single career woman in thirtysomething, girl.

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Birth rates soared and career women sank in prestige to the level of drop-outs in the great breeding stakes.

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But it is surprising how prevalent such feelings still are, even among so-called career women .

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The Eighties career woman who had it all: looks, glamour, fast-track, moneyed lifestyle, husband, children.

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Close friends since schooldays, Joanna and Helen are now successful career women in their twenties.

■ VERB

begin

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She begins her career under the tutelage of her father, another artist of some talent but not much renown.

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He began his retailing career in 1964 when he founded Habitat, a chain of stores selling well-designed modern furniture and furnishings.

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It was soon after that Mrs Rognes began her career , domineering the Ladies' Circle at church.

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She began her journalism career with the Dayton Journal Herald as a copy girl.

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He began his career as an architectural assistant with the Consarc Design Group before qualifying as a lawyer.

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He had begun this career with exceptional promise, creating a splendid army.

build

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Thus Hans Sloane began the thorough grounding on which he was to build his successful career .

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Things began to look pretty bleak, from the standpoint of building a career .

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Constantine has built his literary career by writing about crime in the decaying western Pennsylvania steel town of Rocksburg.

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Since leaving the Army, he has built a successful second career solving civilian problems.

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She decided that building a new settlement was more important than building her career .

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Is my technical background solid enough to build a managerial career on?

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And she came to play a significant role in building his career .

choose

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The soulless, impersonal State had reared him since then, putting him through higher education and choosing his career for him.

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Many of the ideas we have about work, including the freedom to choose any career we want, are fairly new.

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It is unfortunate that this is when most societies expect young people to choose a career .

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How do I choose a new career ?

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Listed below are some of the reasons for choosing a career as a solicitor in this area.

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Money, of course, is a big factor for most people in choosing a career .

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The answers to these questions will have important consequences for anyone who is about to choose a career or a potential employer.

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Moreover, in stating a preference, she chooses her career .

end

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The Don ended his Test career with an average of 99.94-by far the best ever.

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He came home to discover that his war injuries had also ended his boxing career .

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It seems everyone is waiting for Strach to have 2 quiet games in order to start ending his career .

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He and Jeff Bagwell have contract extensions that likely mean they will end their careers with the Astros.

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That year also saw Jackie Stewart end his racing career with his third championship, with Emerson as his runner-up.

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But his main passion was boating in Southampton Water and other waters calmer than those which had ended his active service career .

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I fully expect that Tony will end his career with the San Diego Padres.

finish

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He finished with career best figures of six for 122 and after the match received his county cap from skipper Dermot Reeve.

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The decision gives her the chance to finish her glittering career in the Sydney Olympics.

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Van Horn finished his career as the top scorer in Utah history, averaging 20. 8 points.

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He finished his career in 1952 with a record of 67 wins, including 52 knockouts, six draws and 10 losses.

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Thomas finished his career with 12,074 yards rushing, ninth on the all-time list and just 46 yards behind Franco Harris.

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He moved to Swansea for £160,000 before finishing his career as a coach at Sunderland.

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Gretzky has said that he hopes to finish his playing career with the Kings.

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He says I've always followed his career , from the 1960 Olympics.

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The fifth, reserve offensive tackle Charles McRae, has decided to retire from football following a disappointing six-year career .

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His move to Baronsmead followed a fairly typical career progression.

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Coupled with his close association with medicine, it explains why he decided to follow the career of scientist and natural philosopher.

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As a consequence, Bob Dole is not somebody that they have followed in his career .

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From these it is easy to follow the career of an individual apprentice through to adulthood.

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But the motive for following a composite career is often not purely financial.

help

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If you are lucky, the radio can help your career enormously.

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Educational grants and salary boosts could certainly help the careers of some nurses, but these are stopgap measures.

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There are, for example relevant updating courses which may help in your career .

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Invest in yourself; take courses to help your career .

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It's helped my career up to a point.

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This would be a profit-making organization that allows me to help people with career decisions, write books, and give lectures.

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The Harrods affair will not have helped his political career .

launch

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Good for Annabel, who had the sense to quit the circuit in good time and launch a successful new career .

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In the 1960s women could neither engage in business nor launch political careers .

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Matt now lives in Los Angeles, where he is trying to launch a solo career .

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Jack launched his accounting career at a tuna packing company, then went to work for General Dynamics.

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The smile that launched a career Fans of television presenter Michaela Strachan love her famous cheeky grin.

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Floyd manager Pete Jenner left with him and they immediately went into the studio to launch his solo career .

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He then moved to Oxford Polytechnic before launching his army career at Sandhurst.

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After two years' army service she returned to the troupe, and then launched her solo career at 19.

pursue

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Andrew was determined to pursue a computer career .

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He still wishes to pursue a medical career , and has been told that he will almost definitely get into medical school.

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He attributed his decision to pursue a managerial career mainly to this experience.

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All of them had pursued careers and then, thankfully, relinquished them.

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You should have pursued a career in medicine.

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Perhaps they were open to pursuing a new career path because of their developmental stage.

spend

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Michelle Howard has spent her legal career helping clients involved in medical accidents.

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Since his election to the National Assembly in 1954, Kim had spent most of his career in opposition.

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Barton spent all of his career at right tackle and was switched to the left side this year.

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An officer who spent his career patrolling a middle-class suburb would only in extreme circumstances be involved in a physical encounter.

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He spent a career as a local government officer and was active in the affairs of the Methodist Church.

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Even though he spent his career trying to do just that.

start

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He leaves at the end of this year to start a career in leisure management.

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She would start her City College career in the freshman composition course.

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Now she's returned to start a new career ... and a new life.

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In Petah Tikva my wife had just started a promising academic career .

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They could take a few days off to start career information interviewing.

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Most graduate nurses start their professional careers in clinical nursing.

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There she started her career as a wildlife artist.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

advance your career/a cause/your interests etc

have a checkered history/career/past etc

job/careers fair

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One visit to a nursing careers fair will convince you of this.

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The number of stalls and the range of employers represented at careers fairs has dwindled sharply.

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The report is backed up by anecdotal evidence from careers fairs .

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The workers also were given the chance to participate in a job fair .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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I wanted to find out more about careers in publishing.

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Later on in his career he became first secretary at the British Embassy in Washington.

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Like his father, Tommy chose a career in the Army.

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The scandal destroyed his career as a politician.

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The win was the 250th in Anderson's coaching career .

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Will spent most of his career as a lawyer.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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And that is how I saw this new turn in my career .

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First investment bankers wanted practical people, willing to subordinate their educations to their careers.

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It depicts the sad tale of a lavatory attendant, Jim, who reads newspapers to seek a new career .

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Perhaps in no other political career is defeat at the polls so dreadful.

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Ripley's texts reflect the contradictions of her career .

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The closer you come to mimicking the originals, the sooner you can advance your career to the next level.

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The Harrods affair will not have helped his political career .

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Which format a participant should choose will depend upon his or her career stage, work situation and individual learning style.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

down

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As we careered down towards South Wimbledon, I remembered other trips I'd taken to church.

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Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads.

off

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In the winter of 1979-80 the Trannon careered off on a course of its own.