aftercareerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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aftercareer (複数形 aftercareers)

1. (dated) The career that follows a particular experience or stage in a person's life; later career.
   • 1808, Walter Scott, “Life of John Dryden” in The Works of John Dryden, London: William Miller, Volume 1, p. 38,^[1]

     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 […]

   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, Chapter 18, p. 80,^[2]

     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.

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 2, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 305520, page 37:

     […] it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang out on them—disaster momentous indeed to their expedition, but simply overwhelming in its effect on the after-career of Toad.