entire career

collocation in English

meaningsofentireandcareer

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entire
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪnˈtaɪər/us
/ɪnˈtaɪr/
whole or complete, with ...
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career
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/us
/kəˈrɪr/
the job or series of jobs that you do during your working life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn ...
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(Definition ofentireandcareerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The interviews also collected information about informal care-giving before 1981, so theentirecareerof the care-giver was covered.
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After high school she began work as a secretary in a local law office where she spent herentirecareer.
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I have made the simplifying assumption that salaries increase at the rate of inflation over the employee'sentirecareer.
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Indeed, in the metropolitan administration, they tended to complete theirentirecareerif not in a given section or department, at least in one single board.
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Gibson (1950; 1966; 1979) devoted hisentirecareerto this problem.
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This government has never attempted or tried to do this in itsentirecareer.
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Many people might find it unbelievable that no permanent secretary has run a project in hisentirecareer.
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It cannot be stressed too often that, in what is a monopoly service, disciplinary action will stay with a police officer for hisentirecareer.
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Indeed, he made anentirecareerout of it.
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Someone may spend hisentirecareerin a nationalised criminal defence service, becoming entirely hidebound by the pressures that that state employment may bring.
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However, there is much further to go before the nursing profession will look sufficiently attractive to persuade people to spend anentirecareerin it.
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He remained in charge for herentirecareer.
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He has been a teacher hisentirecareer.
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She has had a focus on womens oppression and issues around this subject herentirecareer.
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It covers the band'sentirecareeruntil 2001, starting with 1985.
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He has spent hisentirecareerin the street as a line fire officer.
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He painted over 250 paintings in hisentirecareer.
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His work on churches, seminaries, schools, and health care facilities spanned hisentirecareer.
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He was never cautioned or sent off during hisentirecareer, due to his philosophy of never kicking or intentionally hurting opposing players.
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