career option

collocation in English

meaningsofcareerandoption

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career
adjective[before noun]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/us
/kəˈrɪr/
having a job or position as part of the career that you are trained for and are normally paid to do, rather than being chosen for it as a member or supporter of a government or ...
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option
noun
uk
/ˈɒp.ʃən/us
/ˈɑːp.ʃən/
one thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make ...
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(Definition ofcareerandoptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This paper provides a window into an arena of applied work - technology - that is an increasingly commoncareeroptionfor linguists.
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A major goal of the course is helping students evaluate engineering as acareeroption.
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It is and will be for the foreseeable future a viablecareeroption.
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A key feature of their simple set up is that low quality types have a comparative advantage because the value of their outsidecareeroptionis lower.
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We want to ensure that many more young women take science and engineering seriously and see it as a positivecareeroption.
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Many people spot thatcareeroption, but we are not very good at responding to it.
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This is a very high response and indicates that for many people, social care is a viablecareeroption.
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In the more general area of education, self-employment is rarely suggested in our schools as acareeroption.
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It has the added benefit of making midwifery a much more attractivecareeroption.
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Secondly, it has already been demonstrated that teaching is a very attractivecareeroptionfor mature people either re-entering the labour market or contemplating a career change.
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Many criteria make engineering both a goodcareeroptionin itself and a base from which to develop into management, and we must encourage engineers to do that.
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With that credibility, combined with unquestionable growth in the global environmental market, it is our hope—and mine in particular—that young people will increasingly perceive science as a worthycareeroption.
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It is already a popularcareeroption.
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I should like to comment briefly on those problems and then go on to discuss the excellence of engineering as acareeroptionfor children at school.
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By 2003 engineering courses were offered as an alternativecareeroption.
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Therefore, they my parents had not even thought of the armed forces as acareeroption.
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However, she did not think at that time that opera was acareeroption.
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The vocation of pub landlord was a commoncareeroptionfor players at the end of their playing days.
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Upon leaving the army he met a female drama student and became interested in acting as acareeroption.
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Canadian teams of this time were still a very viablecareeroption, as they paid comparable money and offered more playing time.
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