semipro

/'semiprou/

Thân thiện

A semipro soccer player practices with his team in the evening.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A semiprofessional athlete: A person who participates in a sport or athletic activity and receives payment for their performance, but not as a full-time, primary occupation. Their involvement is on a part-time basis.

Usage

• The term "semipro" is an informal shortening of "semiprofessional." It is most commonly used in North American English to describe athletes who compete at a level between amateur and fully professional.
• It functions as a countable noun (e.g., , ).

Examples

• Noun:
  • After college, he played as a semipro for a local football team while working a day job.
  • The league is composed mostly of semipros who have other careers.

Advanced Usage

• The term can sometimes be used attributively (like an adjective) before another noun to describe things related to semiprofessional athletes.
  • He spent a few years in the semipro ranks before making it to the major league.
  • They compete in a semipro hockey league.

Variants and Related Words

• Semiprofessional (adj & n): The full, more formal term.
  • Adjective: a semiprofessional soccer player
  • Noun: She transitioned from amateur to semiprofessional.

Synonyms

• Part-time professional
• Semi-professional athlete

Antonyms

• Amateur (an athlete who does not receive payment)
• Professional (an athlete for whom the sport is a full-time, primary career)

Học thuật

Noun

1. an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis

Từ đồng nghĩa

• semiprofessional