career woman

Or ca·reer·wom·an

[kuh-reer-woom-uhn]

noun

1. a woman who has a profession or a business career.

Word History and Origins

Origin of career woman¹

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40

Example Sentences

Perhaps not in university or in high school, but as I’ve become a career woman, I like to be very, very organized.

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Along with the cabinet secretary, she recommended that the Blairs should pay back part of the discount, though Cherie was entitled to divide her purchases into two, on the basis that half the clothes were required for her role as a "career woman".

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Sophie, Graham seems proud to announce, was once “a bit of a wild child … a party girl” who became a career woman — a political PR operative — and, for the last seven years, a full-time mother.

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Rebel told the BBC: "I was the classic example of a career woman who went out into the world, didn't even think about kids, and then suddenly in your mid 30s is like, 'Oh, hang on, do I want that as an option?'"

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Carroll is a career woman who felt free to date whomever she wanted.

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