1 a person who takes part in a sport or other activity for enjoyment or interest, not as a job:
The tournament is open to both amateurs and professionals.
2 (usually disapproving) a person who is not skilled:
This work was done by a bunch of amateurs!
OPPPROFESSIONAL
amateurism noun [U]:
New regulations on amateurism allow payment for promotional work.
Part of speech: adjective
1 [usuallybeforenoun] doing sth for enjoyment or interest, not as a job:
an enthusiastic amateur photographer
2 [usuallybeforenoun] done for enjoyment or interest, not as a job:
amateur athletics
3 = AMATEURISH
OPPPROFESSIONAL
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for amateur is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is amateur a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, amateur is tagged as noun.
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