career woman
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3.5
- noun
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mujer profesional
- Most professional career women do forget.
And she lamented the fact that career women were associated with with hard women devoid of all feminine characteristics.
- And she lamented the fact that career women were associated with with hard women devoid of all feminine characteristics.
Examples
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I'm a career woman now.
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You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people.
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I mean, I am a career woman.
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It's so hard being a single parent and a career woman.
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Every career woman who moves into this neighborhood always brings something nobody has ever heard of.
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Where I struggle is with your final point about a "modern struggle of a career woman."
Blog text (24) -
- Just remember, from this point on... we are sophisticated, educated, successful career women.
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Some of them are career women, wives, mothers, Girl Guide leaders, churchgoers, and so on.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm a career woman.
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As a successful career woman, Sarah often works late and prioritizes her job over social events.
Synonyms
3
3.8
A woman who makes her work her main goal instead of family life
3
6.3
A person who tries to get ahead at work even if not honest or fair
Antonyms
How Career-Focused
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a woman whose main priority is her profession' is directly derivable from combining 'career' (a person's work) and 'woman' (an adult female); the compound is compositionally transparent. Although it can carry additional social connotations in discourse, the basic referential meaning is obvious to a B1 learner who knows both constituents and this compounding pattern is cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Career woman comes from the idea of a woman who makes her career — her chosen work path — her main life focus. One popular image is a woman following a clear work 'path' instead of traditional home roles, so the phrase means 'a woman whose main priority is her job'.