careerlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

career +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

careerlike (comparative more careerlike, superlative most careerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a career.
    • 1983, Margaret Dimond, Susan L Jones, Chronic illness across the life span:
      Transsexualism follows a careerlike orientation which begins shortly after birth.
    • 1985, Erdman Ballagh Palmore, Duke University, Normal aging III: reports from the Duke longitudinal studies, 1975-1984:
      If defined broadly enough, the concept refers to a careerlike relationship of activities or stages to each other...