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career girl

British  

noun

  1. a woman whose main priority in life is achieving success in her career or profession

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Or maybe he was a playboy, and she was a self-respecting career girl.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

She’s “a career girl and a survivalist,” on the road so much she can’t even get a dog.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019

Mary Tyler Moore After playing a kooky wife to Dick Van Dyke in his show, in 1970 Moore bloomed into American TV’s favourite single career girl.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2017

"And then a little bit later you have a woman on a commuter train, a sort of career girl."

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2015

The closing shot of her in the dowdy hotel where she is presumably about to invent the Virginia Slims tagline seems like a perfect metaphor for her position as a career girl in 1967.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2012

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