career girl


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career girl

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career woman

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a woman whose main priority in life is achieving success in her career or profession
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.career girl - a woman who is a careerist
careerist - a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity
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Translations

career girl

, career woman
nKarrierefrau f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

career girl

ndonna in carriera
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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"For years, I used the excuse that I was a career girl and too busy to cook.
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Manhattan career girl Audrey sets her sights on publishing best-selling novels.
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Approaching the story like the novelist he is, the author recounts the efforts of one assistant district attorney to learn the truth, which eventually led to the arrest and conviction of the real killer, Richard Robles, in the case dubbed The Career Girl Murders.
Although, she had earlier stated that she wanted to change people's opinion of her from being a socialite heiress to a hard-working career girl, the billionaire's daughter insists that posing outside and inside of her expensive new car have opposite effects.
Perky Amy Adams keeps the whole thing afloat as uptight Boston career girl Anna Brady.
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In a section entitled "The feminist working girl fantasy," Lukas, byway of Friends and a host of other pop culture references, points out that the lives of Rachel Green, fashion designer, and Average Johanna, career girl, are very different.
She plays a career girl who is always lucky: she can find a taxi where others fail, it stops raining when she walks outside, and when her boss gets stuck in a lift before an important meeting she takes over and makes a success of it.

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