different between career vs job

English

Etymology

Mid 16th century, from French carrière (a road or racecourse), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carr?ria based on Latin carrus 'wheeled vehicle'. Alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera ("road"), from Late Latin carr?ria.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????/
• Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Korea
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

career (plural careers)

1. One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
2. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.

3. (archaic) Speed.
   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

     when a horse is running in his full career

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy

     It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.

4. A jouster's path during a joust.
   • 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.

5. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:

     It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.

   • 1756, William Guthrie (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by Quintillian)

     Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble

6. (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
7. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

   • to think of going back again the same career

Related terms

• careerism
• careerist

Translations

Verb

career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)

1. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

   Synonym: careen

   The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.

Translations

Adjective

career (not comparable)

1. Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”)

   a career criminal

   • 2012, Arthur Gillard, Homelessness (page 38)

     Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.

Further reading

• "career" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 52.

Scots

Etymology

From English career.

Noun

career (plural careers)

1. career

English

Etymology

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

Folk etymology linked the word to Job, the biblical character who suffered many misfortunes; for semantic development of misery and labor, compare Vulgar Latin *tripalium (“instrument of torture”) and its Romance descendants like Spanish trabajo and French travail (whence borrowed into English travail).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: j?b, IPA^(key): /d???b/
• (General American) enPR: j?b, IPA^(key): /d???b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

job (plural jobs)

1. A task.
   • 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire

     And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.

2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Here I am at my new job! 

3. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

4. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
6. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
7. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
8. (colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

   Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.

Translations

Verb

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
   • a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement

     Authors of all work, to job for the season.

2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
3. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
4. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
5. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

   We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
   • 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst

     And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

7. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

   • a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore

8. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     And while the Tympan is coming , he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it , as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position , as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder

9. To hire or let in periods of service.
   • 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,^[1]

     […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• employment
• work
• labour

Anagrams

• obj

Danish

Etymology

From English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?b?]

Noun

job n

1. job

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Hyphenation: job
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

job f (plural jobs)

1. (chiefly Belgium) job

   Synonym: baan

Usage notes

Job is the default word for a job in Belgium. In the Netherlands baan is the default; however, job is sometimes used informally or in certain sectors (e.g. marketing), but it may also be considered pretentious due to an association with yuppies.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??b/

Noun

job m or f (plural jobs)

1. (informal) job (employment role)
2. (Quebec, Louisiana, informal) work

Usage notes

• This term is feminine in Quebec and some parts of Louisiana and masculine elsewhere.

Synonyms

• (informal) boulot

Further reading

• “job” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Noun

job m (invariable)

1. job (employment role, computing task)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??bi/
• (Rarely) IPA^(key): /?d??b/

Noun

job m (plural jobs)

1. (computing) job (task carried out in batch mode)