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How to spell career
Career is spelled C-A-R-E-E-R. CA, then REER: double E before the last R, as in deer.
What it means: A person's professional life or job.
In a sentence: She wants to have a career as a teacher.
The part people get wrong
Watch for double e.
Same family: careers, career path, career change, career development, career counselor. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "career" comes from the French word "carrière," meaning a racecourse or road, and originally referred to the path a horse would run. Over time, it came to mean the path of a person’s working life or profession.
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