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amateurism

[ am-uh-choo-riz-uhm, -tyoo-, -chuh-, -tuh-, am-uh-tur-iz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the practice, quality, or character of an amateur or amateurish performance.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • d·a·ٱܰ· noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of amateurism1

First recorded in 1865–70; amateur + -ism
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“It’s a result of seven years of amateurism and a spectacular drift in our public finances,” she has said.

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He added that the party represented the "silent majority" and could have won more seats, but that "amateurism let us down".

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There was a time when Olympians weren’t allowed to receive any money, when the International Olympic Committee clung to a hidebound notion of amateurism.

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The details in the plan signal the end of the NCAA’s bedrock amateurism model that dates to its founding in 1906.

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Wolf, as Diane Fisher, an early staffer, recalls, “was a big believer in amateurism rather than careerism.”

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