"aftercareer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: aftercareers [plural]
Etymology: after- + career Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|after|career}} after- + career Head templates: {{en-noun}} aftercareer (plural aftercareers)
  1. (dated) The career that follows a particular experience or stage in a person's life; later career. Tags: dated Related terms: afterlife
    Sense id: en-aftercareer-en-noun-znzJ0guQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with after-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1808, Walter Scott, “Life of John Dryden”, in The Works of John Dryden, volume 1, London: William Miller, page 38",
          "text": "In a youth entering life under the protection of such relations, who could have anticipated the future dramatist and poet laureat […]? In his after career, his early connections with the puritans, and the principles of his kinsmen during the civil wars and usurpation, were often made subjects of reproach […]",
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          "ref": "1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 18, in The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, page 80",
          "text": "Nothing more happened to ruffle Mr Pontifex, so we had a delightful evening, which has often recurred to me while watching the after career of my godson.",
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          "ref": "1987, Fredson Bowers, “The Publication of Renaissance Plays”, in Fredson Bowers, editor, Elizabethan Dramatists, Detroit: Gale Research Company, page 414",
          "text": "[…] since the author himself seldom sold the copy to the bookseller, he had no personal or financial interest in his play’s aftercareer except on the stage, the more especially since he did not believe that in a play he was writing in a medium that would bring him literary fame.",
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        "(dated) The career that follows a particular experience or stage in a person's life; later career."
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