Толковый словарь английского языка - career

I. noun Etymology: Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera street, from Medieval Latin carraria road for vehicles, from Latin carrus car Date: circa 1534 1. speed in a course , course, passage, encounter, charge, a field for or pursuit of consecutive progressive achievement especially in public, professional, or business life , a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling , II. intransitive verb Date: 1647 to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner