Definition of "semi-professional" []

• Playing for pay on a part-time basis (adjective)
• Composed of semi-professional players (adjective)
• A semi-professional sportsman or athlete (noun)

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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.""
• "My father was a semi-professional footballer and a professional skier, as were my aunt and my uncle."
• "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."