Work
Exercise 30.4
What do the collocations in bold in the text below mean? Use a dictionary to help you.
Kika started out in a dead-end job in a jam factory but she ended up with a glittering career
on the stage, a career spanning five decades. She is quoted as saying ‘Stage acting may not be
a particularly lucrative job but it has to be one of the most rewarding jobs in the world.’
- dead-end job
Answer
a job that has few prospects of leading somewhere interesting or successful
- glittering career
Answer
an impressive career, one that is admired by many people
- career spanning
Answer
a career covering a specified and notably long period of time
- lucrative job
Answer
a job where the person earns a lot of money for doing the work
- rewarding job
Answer
a job where the person gets a lot of personal satisfaction – emotional rather than financial - from doing the work
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