Doing something out of free will, e.g. as a hobby, typically occasionally and not on a professional basis.
The practice, quality, or character of an amateur or amateurish performance.
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Forty years ago we applied rules on amateurism to top-class athletes.
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Quite unjustly, amateurism has come to imply incompetence rather than enthusiasm.
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The national trend away from amateurism started even befor we were a nation.
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He suggests that Kesey's amateurism was key to his countercultural attitude.
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It remains to be learned how large a space the issue of amateurism occupies.
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It was, in a way, Facebook's last gasp of amateurism.
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Moore points out that NCAA sports generating less revenue sometimes have looser rules governing amateurism.
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For all the similarities, the inherent difference between Gaelic and Australian rules football is amateurism.
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There is the obvious issue of amateurism itself.
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Is there an argument that the GAA is on an unavoidable course towards the shelving of amateurism?
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However, it's the gleeful amateurism that makes the repeats so lovable; its giggling contestants, confusing … pauses.
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This was rank provincial amateurism, to send a man to follow someone who knew him by sight.
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Movies have gone to hell and amateurism.
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Big money and the eclipse of amateurism paved the way for the illegal drugs culture, writes Al Guy.
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What kind of amateurism is that?'
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Add it all up and the picture of amateurism, reinforced by lack of challenge from the boardroom, is extraordinary.