Dictionary entry

Career

Pronunciation: /kəˈrɪə/

Pronunciation

/kəˈrɪə/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) သက်မွေးမှုလုပ်ငန်း။ လုပ်ငန်းသက်။ အလုပ်သက်တမ်း။ (v) ထိုးဆင်းသည်။

Definition

career /kǝ'rÇǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] သက္ေမြးမႈလုပ္ငန္း။ a career in accountancy/journalism/politics ❍ She chose an academic career. ❍ a career diplomat (ie a professional one) ❍ a careers adviser/officer/teacher (ie an adviser, etc whose job is to give people information about jobs and professions). ၂။ [C] လုပ္ငန္းသက္။ အလုပ္သက္တမ္း။ look back on a successful career ❍ During her career she met many famous people. ❍ My school career was not very impressive. v ( esp Brit ) ထိုးဆင္းသည္။ careering down the road on a bicycle ❍ The car careered off the road into a ditch. ❏ career girl (also career woman) n ( esp sexist or derog ) ရာဇဝင္ေျပာင္ေအာင္ အိမ္ေထာင္လစ္ဟင္းသူ။ ❏ careerist /kǝ'rÇǝrÇst/ n ( often derog ) လုပ္စားသူ။

Examples

  1. Choosing a career can be a very difficult decision.
  2. The problems of combining a career and a family
  3. [career in] : A career in computer science
  4. [career as] : He has just started out on a career as a photographer.
  5. [academic/political/managerial etc career] : Rosen had decided on an academic career.
  6. [pursue/embark on/follow a career] : Only 20 per cent of the students intend to pursue careers as engineers in industry.
  7. [make a career out of something] : Young graduates looking to make a career out of teaching
  8. [end/ruin someone’s career] : The financial scandal that ruined her career
  9. [a chequered career] : An entrepreneur with a rather chequered career
  10. [a distinguished/successful/glittering career] : He subsequently enjoyed a distinguished career in the diplomatic service.
  11. The biggest fight of his career
  12. She played more than 800 games in a career spanning 20 years.
  13. [someone’s playing/acting career] : The injury that ended his playing career
  14. [launch a/your etc career] : The 25-year-old actress is now launching her career over here.
  15. [the peak/height of someone’s career] : In 1999 Mackay was at the peak of her show business career.
  16. A good career choice
  17. He felt like a career change and went into teaching.
  18. A job with excellent career prospects