Usually means: Participation without financial or professional gain.
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  1. amateurism: Merriam-Webster
  2. amateurism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amateurism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. amateurism: Vocabulary.com
  5. amateurism: Wordnik
  6. amateurism: Wiktionary
  7. amateurism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. amateurism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Amateurism, amateurism: Dictionary.com
  10. Amateurism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Amateurism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. amateurism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. amateurism: Rhymezone
  14. Amateurism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. amateurism: FreeDictionary.org
  16. amateurism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. amateurism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. amateurism: Legal dictionary

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  1. amateurism: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amateurism)

▸ noun:  Amateur beliefs and practices generally.
▸ noun:  The opinion or conviction that sports ought not to be played for money.

Similar:
Academicism, New Ageism, aleation, Sovietism, Afrikanerism, orthodoxy, deviationism, attitudinarianism, allist, contrarianism, more...

Types:
nonprofessionalism, unprofessionalism, incompetence, amateurishness, unskilled, more...

Adjectives:
political, pure, such, gentlemanly, musical, literary, british, strict, genteel, true, enthusiastic

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Similar:
Academicism, New Ageism, aleation, Sovietism, Afrikanerism, orthodoxy, deviationism, attitudinarianism, allist, contrarianism, more...

Types:
nonprofessionalism, unprofessionalism, incompetence, amateurishness, unskilled, more...

Adjectives:
political, pure, such, gentlemanly, musical, literary, british, strict, genteel, true, enthusiastic



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