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What does amateurism mean?

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Noun
  1. Amateur beliefs and practices generally.
  2. The opinion or conviction that sports ought not to be played for money.
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The values that amateurism promoted were sportsmanship, fair play, discipline and respect for authority.
You or I could go on a one-day sushi course and doubtless produce something at the end of it, but our amateurism would show.
I was a little confused and don't know whether that was professionalism or pure amateurism.
Do the Conservatives really want to show the world that their foreign affairs policy is characterized by amateurism and incompetence?
It was slightly discomforting and jarring, especially for a nation clinging to the last vestiges of amateurism and praying for the return of the Corinthian spirit.
And Canadians, with their British-oriented sensibilities, were conscious of amateurism and the role that sport played among the simon-pure.

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