Similar words: amateurish, amateur, pasteurise, pasteurised, pasteurisation, aneurism, voyeurism, pasteurize. Meaning: ['æmətərɪzm] 
n. the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money.
n. the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money. 
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(1) He is a staunch supporter of amateurism.
(2) New regulations on amateurism allow payment for promotional work.
(3) Nineteenth-century amateurism has been stood on its head.
(4) Amateurism, on a respirator at the time, had been compromised.
(5) Not for them chirpy whelk stall amateurism or cheerful under-achieving.
(6) Amateurism provided a bridge between the old world of aristocratic values and the new one of bourgeois exertion and competitiveness.
(7) Lu Xun's thought on amateurism makes it clear to us that intellectuals should actively show concern for the development of the whole nation and the world.
(8) That is lo say, I am for amateurism in all fields. Sentencedict.com
(9) Even then, the concept of amateurism, for which there were no rules in ancient times, and the zeal for the competitive spirit were often sacrificed for the more selfish materialistic considerations.
(10) Amateurism is a brand new perspective and an effective mode to represent intellectuals. Literary criticism should be rooted in secularism.
(11) After Sarah Palin, amateurism has become a Tea Party hallmark.
(12) No wonder so many sports fans blame television and corporate cash for the erosion of amateurism and the endless drug scandals.
(13) Professional athletes were fully embraced, finally ending the tradition of amateurism at the games.
(14) Soon after his election, Samaranch worked towards the abolition of amateurism at the Olympic Games.
(15) He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he was paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules.
(16) Ms Royal has been damaged by a succession of foreign-policy gaffes in recent weeks, which have lent her campaign an air of amateurism.
(17) He pointed it out that intellectual should intervene into the actuality actively so that he proposed two modes----exile and amateurism.
(18) As a result, the Olympics shifted away from pure amateurism, as envisioned by Coubertin, to allow participation of professional athletes.
(19) The Samaranch era spanned political boycotts, the end of amateurism, the explosion of commercialization, a boom in the popularity of the games, the scourge of doping, and the Salt Lake crisis.
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