professionals

Example Sentences

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Some older players are paid, but they are semiprofessionals who work day jobs as clerks and school aides.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2021

Musicians’ advocates estimate that more than 5,000 professionals and semiprofessionals produce the city’s collective sound.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020

In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was sung extemporaneously, first by plantation workers and later by semiprofessionals with such exotic names as the Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor.

From Time Magazine Archive

You have what I consider hobbyists, and semi-hobbyists," says Eddy, meaning semiprofessionals, "and then you have the true professional who does it for a living.

From Time Magazine Archive