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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 champion of amateurism, it has been forced willy-nilly to wade into a sea of professionalism and excessive commercialization.
The values that amateurism promoted were sportsmanship, fair play, discipline and respect for authority.
The Eurasianet investigation also reveals a feeling of improvisation and amateurism in the  way the ground operations were conducted.
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.
And Canadians, with their British-oriented sensibilities, were conscious of amateurism and the role that sport played among the simon-pure.
The rediscovery of Olympic amateurism encouraged the creation of numerous clubs and schools that finished professional wrestling off.

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