Definitions
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- adjective of a sportsman or athlete
playing forpay on apart-time basis - adjective of a team
composed of semi-professionalplayers - noun a semi-professional sportsman or athlete
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Examples
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For me, it's simple: my students who are varsity athletes must allocate twenty-five hours a week of intensive physical effort to their sport -- and this is at a Division Three school where athletics are formally a second-tier activity; Division One universities should be dubbed "semi-professional athletic training facilities," for those students who are the beneficiaries of that oxymoron, the "athletic scholarship."
Van Gosse: A Modest Proposal (to Help Fix American Education) Van Gosse 2011
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For me, it's simple: my students who are varsity athletes must allocate twenty-five hours a week of intensive physical effort to their sport -- and this is at a Division Three school where athletics are formally a second-tier activity; Division One universities should be dubbed "semi-professional athletic training facilities," for those students who are the beneficiaries of that oxymoron, the "athletic scholarship."
Van Gosse: A Modest Proposal (to Help Fix American Education) Van Gosse 2011
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For me, it's simple: my students who are varsity athletes must allocate twenty-five hours a week of intensive physical effort to their sport -- and this is at a Division Three school where athletics are formally a second-tier activity; Division One universities should be dubbed "semi-professional athletic training facilities," for those students who are the beneficiaries of that oxymoron, the "athletic scholarship."
Van Gosse: A Modest Proposal (to Help Fix American Education) Van Gosse 2011
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For me, it's simple: my students who are varsity athletes must allocate twenty-five hours a week of intensive physical effort to their sport -- and this is at a Division Three school where athletics are formally a second-tier activity; Division One universities should be dubbed "semi-professional athletic training facilities," for those students who are the beneficiaries of that oxymoron, the "athletic scholarship."
Van Gosse: A Modest Proposal (to Help Fix American Education) Van Gosse 2011
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For me, it's simple: my students who are varsity athletes must allocate twenty-five hours a week of intensive physical effort to their sport -- and this is at a Division Three school where athletics are formally a second-tier activity; Division One universities should be dubbed "semi-professional athletic training facilities," for those students who are the beneficiaries of that oxymoron, the "athletic scholarship."
Van Gosse: A Modest Proposal (to Help Fix American Education) Van Gosse 2011
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For me, it's simple: my students who are varsity athletes must allocate twenty-five hours a week of intensive physical effort to their sport -- and this is at a Division Three school where athletics are formally a second-tier activity; Division One universities should be dubbed "semi-professional athletic training facilities," for those students who are the beneficiaries of that oxymoron, the "athletic scholarship."
Van Gosse: A Modest Proposal (to Help Fix American Education) Van Gosse 2011
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Today a thriving network of professional and semi-professional writers, photographers, artisans, designers and DIY filmmakers ply their talents through thousands of often interconnected sites that are pushing the vanguard in art, fashion and prose -- and their influence is rapidly moving mainstream.
Estelle Hayes: Alt Summit Shows Blogosphere as New Bohemia Estelle Hayes 2012
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If you are an amateur or a semi-professional photographer, then you can probably make some money from your photos.
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Alÿs has arranged perhaps the ultimate post-modern exhibit by displaying a collection of over three hundred amateur and semi-professional paintings and other objects copying the image of St. Fabiola.
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My father was a semi-professional footballer and a professional skier, as were my aunt and my uncle.
Novak Djokovic ready to party but spares a thought for Andy Murray 2011
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