walk of life

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   careers in general

   “it happens in all walks of life”

   Synonymswalk

   Broadercareer

Questions about walk of life

What does walk of life mean?

walk of life means "careers in general".

What is another word for walk of life?

Close synonyms include walk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is walk of life a common word?

walk of life is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.