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career(1)(dictionary)
career(2)(dictionary)
career choice(medicine)
career mobility(medicine)
career 1, noun(dictionary)
career 2, verb(dictionary)
career woman(dictionary)
Career Offender(law)
career counselor(dictionary)

tamarack (medicine) and career(1) (iou)


tamarack (medicine)


tamarack
<botany> The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.

The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

Source: Websters Dictionary


career(1) (iou)



career noun & adjective. M16.

A. noun.
A racecourse; the enclosure at a tournament etc.; course, road. M16-M18.
A short gallop of a horse at full speed; a charge, an encounter on horseback. M16-M18.
A (swift) running course; an act of careering; full speed, impetus. M16.
Milton The Sun..was hasting now with prone carreer To th' Ocean Iles. C. S. Forester Mr. Graham put out a huge hand that stopped a taxi in full career. Y. Menuhin A dizzy career by jeep through the empty streets.
A course or progress through life or history; an occupation or profession engaged in as a life-work, a way of making a livelihood and advancing oneself. E19.
W. A. Percy To the grown-ups turtle soup was simply the predestined last act of a soft-shell turtle's career. T. Capote He had attempted several Careers, as soldier, ranch hand, mechanic, thief. Jo Grimond The law..seemed a suitable career for an aspiring politician.
Comb.: Careers master, Careers mistress, Careers teacher: responsible for advising pupils on a choice of career; career structure the structure of an organization or profession as providing opportunities for advancement and a developing career.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Permanently employed in a particular profession; (esp. of a woman) devoted to the pursuit of a profession. E20.
F. J. Stimson The career professors look somewhat askance at one who comes in from the outside world. B. Friedan They are not career women..; they are women whose greatest ambition has been Marriage and children.
careerism noun the practice or policy of a careerist M20.
careerist noun & adjective (a person) mainly intent on furthering his or her own career, esp. unscrupulously E20.