An athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis

Usage examples of semiprofessional.

The same level maintained for the semiprofessional magazines in 1997, though the good story balance there was a higher percentage than in the anthologies.

A classical flutist turned semiprofessional folk artist, Kathy performs on flute and Irish harp with her guitarist-music teacher husband, Mark, and they have released two successful folk albums.

At any rate, my physique was distinctive, masked or no, and my abortive experiment in semiprofessional adventuring ended abruptly when a gossip columnist accurately divined my identity.

Swedish sf fan, Bertil Falk, who publishes, it as a small, semiprofessional magazine.

Alan Bechtold, who ran a small semiprofessional publishing outfit he called Apocalypse Press, wanted to put out a series of limited printings of individual science fiction stories especially written for the purpose.

Thus was born the Vicious Circle, a group of professional and semiprofessional writers who got together to critique stories, talk shop, and develop collaborative ideas.

A line to a conclusion: the Nite Owl killings were semiprofessional at least, an attempt to take over the heroin and pornography rackets of Pierce Patchett.

There seems to have been an increase in quality as well as in quantity, too, with well-edited semiprofessional magazines and small press anthologies of generally higher editorial standards than those anthologies issuing from big trade publishers proliferating.

The floor was still littered with cheaply printed programs: Vivaldi and Corelli performed by a local semiprofessional orchestra.

The newer and more rapidly expanding part of this class consisted of professionals and semiprofessionals employed in services and the public sector, including the officer corps, and the thousands of students looking for jobs.

Leave all the hill climbs and Macao Grand Prix to the semiprofessionals.