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Definition of Semiprofessional
1. Noun. An athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis.
Definition of Semiprofessional
1. Adjective. Paid as a professional but on a part-time basis. ¹
2. Adjective. Like a professional but not as skilled or experienced, more than an amateur but lower than a full professional in quality. ¹
3. Noun. A semiprofessional person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiprofessional
Literary usage of Semiprofessional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hours, Earnings, and Conditions of Labor of Women in Indiana Mercantile by Marie Louise Obenauer, Royal Meeker, Frances Wadsworth Valentine, Indiana Commission on Working Women (1914)
"... in department stores and in other mercantile houses, nor did it include women
in domestic service and in clerical and semiprofessional pursuits. ..."
2. Opinions of the Solicitor for the Department of Labor Dealing with Workmen's by United States (1915)
"The work of a cement tester and chemist in the Reclamation Service being in its
nature semiprofessional, claimant held not to be an artisan or laborer. ..."
3. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1921)
""THE EMPEROR JONES" A Play in Eight Scenes BY EUGENE G. O'NEILL THE Provincetown
Players, a semiprofessional organization which includes Eugene O'Neill as a ..."
4. Shakespeare's Theater by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1916)
"... the Children of the Chapel have now become a semiprofessional company, which
along with the children actors of Paul's and of Windsor, appear frequently. ..."
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