career

career is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A race course: the ground run over. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A race course: the ground run over.
2. noun. A running; full speed; a rapid course.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. The flight of a hawk.
5. intransitive verb. To move or run rapidly.
6. noun. the general progression of your working or professional life

   "the general had had a distinguished career"

   "he had a long career in the law"

7. noun. the particular occupation for which you are trained

   Synonyms: calling, vocation

8. verb. move headlong at high speed

   "The cars careered down the road"

   "The mob careered through the streets"

Synonyms

calling, vocation

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in career:

carree

Common word forms

careers, careered, careerer, careering

Words from these letters

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