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professional, in athletics: see amateur amateur, in sports, one who engages in athletic competition without material recompense. Upper-class Englishmen in the 19th cent. used the concept to help define their social status, first applying the term to sportsmen who did not need to work with their hands as ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Apart from his first emotion of surprise, the feeling she produced in the Doctor may be described as an overpowering feeling of professional curiosity. The taking of Departure, if not the last sight of the land, is, perhaps, the last professional recognition of the land on the part of a sailor. This is an age of professional poets, whom emperors and statesmen delight to honour. |
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