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AMATEURISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amateurism mean? 

AMATEURISM (noun)
  The noun AMATEURISM has 1 sense:

1. the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for moneyplay

  Familiarity information: AMATEURISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMATEURISM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("amateurism" is a kind of...):

article of faith; conviction; strong belief (an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence)


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