(n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
Example Sentences:
(1) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
(2) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
(3) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
(4) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
(5) Tony Abbott has heard the message on the need to change his leadership style, a senior minister has said, warning the prime minister’s detractors against moving an “amateur-hour” spill motion next week.
(6) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
(7) The movie is sustained by a brilliant amateur cast, chosen by Greengrass from Somali immigrants in Minneapolis .
(8) A previously obscure artist has become famous overnight because of the amateur restorer's exploit.
(9) On Friday, Hacked Off called for an urgent correction to one of the major sticking points for Fleet Street: the unintended vulnerability of the amateur blogger who, due to "bad government drafting", could have found themselves liable for exemplary damages.
(10) They regarded them as amateurs and oiks and refused to extend to them any degree of autonomy.
(11) This week's victims, siblings Stuart and Jill, both love amateur dramatics.
(12) In a sign of the tension, amateur video footage showed Turkish military personnel refusing to help the riot police, as well as handing out gas masks to demonstrators.
(13) In England, they identify the players coming in and if they are professional, they are allowed to play,” Tavecchio said at the summer assembly of Italy’s amateur leagues.
(14) Sweden banned professional boxing in 1969 and has also considered banning amateur boxing.
(15) The shift in policy was a direct response to weeks of negative media reports surrounding photographers, amateur and professional, who said they were being unfairly stopped, usually under section 44, a law allowing officers to stop and search without need for "suspicion" within designated areas in the UK.
(16) He included a link to a YouTube clip of his amateur bout against Charles "Pink Pounder" Jones.
(17) Politicians including the prime minister were highly visible during a Games that delivered the best British medal haul for more than a century, but practitioners such as Jon Glenn, head of youth and community at the Amateur Swimming Association, said: "The government needs to start showing by its actions that it values physical activity.
(18) The position of the American Medical Association (AMA) has evolved from promoting increased safety and medical reform to recommending total abolition of both amateur and professional boxing.
(19) It also aims to draw on the voices of the millions of people who enjoy British artistic life as audiences, amateur participants, volunteers or visitors.
(20) Annoyed at the labyrinthine politics of amateur boxing, Fury turned pro just after his 20th birthday.
Apprentice
Definition:
(n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
(n.) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
(n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
(v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Alan Sugar did The Apprentice for older people, I would love to be on it.
(2) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(3) A woman will be crowned winner of The Apprentice on Wednesday as Lord Sugar, for the third time in the history of the show, will choose between two female candidates.
(4) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
(5) See these jobs for 18- to 24-year-olds, as "apprentices", who only need to be paid the apprentice rate of £2.68 an hour, not the £6.31 minimum wage.
(6) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
(7) The apprentice has now become master of the Labour machine and the party is looking to him for stability at one of the most uncertain, as well as most exciting, moments in its history.
(8) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
(9) Ian Duncan Smith mentioned the welfare to work programme and apprentice scheme.
(10) The decree included Mikan's requirements and the introduction of tests for pharmacists' apprentices (tirones) prior to the journeyman's examination and compulsory registration of employed pharmacists (subjecti) at the Faculty of Medicine.
(11) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
(12) But if we have these machines that are working with us, almost like an apprentice, we can tell them what it is that we want at a high level.
(13) From 1 October the minimum wage for apprentices under 19 and all in their first year of apprenticeship rose to £3.30 an hour; only those over 19 and in a second or subsequent year – very much in the minority – are eligible for the minimum wage for their age band.
(14) It is no longer far-fetched to consider a former host of the reality TV show The Apprentice occupying the White House.
(15) It’s just the politics at the end of the day beat me,” Hockey told Mark Bouris, the founder of Wizard Home Loans and the host of Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
(16) Both will be called to explain themselves before parliament's public accounts committee, at the invitation of Margaret Hodge , the indefatigable ringmistress of Westminster proceedings that can often rival an episode of The Apprentice for drama.
(17) The previous record high for The Apprentice was 7.5 million viewers for last week's show.
(18) Why the Republican healthcare bill was doomed: a failed political balancing act Read more Gwenda Blair, a Trump biographer, said of Trump’s supporters: “They voted for a guy who could fix it, the CEO, on The Apprentice for 10 years, who could make a deal with anybody.” But the tactics that served Trump so well in business – playing the alpha male, holding one-on-one meetings – did not translate to politics, she said.
(19) At the same time the package was aimed at easing the employment of people on temporary contracts, and stimulating training, apprentice and internship schemes.
(20) The first of three Food Tube-branded books will be published in June featuring three of the cooks including Kerryann Dunlop, one of the original apprentices at Oliver's 15 restaurant.