{
  "id": "career.occupation",
  "term": "career",
  "sense": "occupation",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 21,
  "arena": "career",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a series of jobs that a person does over time with growth and skill development",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "jobs.employment",
      "growth.development",
      "skill.ability",
      "development.growth",
      "people.social",
      "series.ordered",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a person does a series of jobs that have growth and skill development, the pattern of work over time is a role",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal progression of roles",
      "accumulated skill development",
      "personal vocational trajectory"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Marie Curie advanced from a junior researcher to a Nobel-winning scientist while pioneering radioactivity studies at the Sorbonne.",
      "domain": "science"
    },
    {
      "text": "Lin-Manuel Miranda moved from performing in Off-Broadway shows to creating and starring in the Broadway hit Hamilton.",
      "domain": "arts"
    },
    {
      "text": "Satya Nadella rose from engineer to CEO at Microsoft, shifting the company toward cloud computing and AI integration.",
      "domain": "business"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "role.social",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "jobs.employment",
      "note": "",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "career",
    "careered",
    "careering",
    "careers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: development.growth, people.social, series.ordered, and time.dimension. Definition remained valid and was not rewritten."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-career.occupation"
}