semipro

/adjective sem-ee-proh, sem-ahy-; noun sem-ee-proh, sem-ahy-/US // adjective ˈsɛm iˌproʊ, ˈsɛm aɪ-; noun ˌsɛm iˈproʊ, ˌsɛm aɪ- //UK // (ˈsɛmɪˌprəʊ) //

半成品,半官方,半官方的,半成品加工

Definitions

1
plural sem·i·pros.Informal.
- : semiprofessional.

Examples

After playing semipro baseball for a year he started typing up off-off-Broadway plays, supporting himself by waiting tables at the Village Gate nightclub in New York.
Smaller schools in particular may ax programs if they are required to pay players — the vast majority of schools already don’t turn a profit on their athletics programs — which could steer athletes toward burgeoning semipro leagues.
So it’s alarming to a certain extent that the top of the “Valorant” scene is filled with a lot of semipro “Counter-Strike” players.
Now and again, someone sees through the decorative math, but the semipro philosophizing just goes on and on.
Then there was the story of the semipro ball player who used cannabis for pain control.

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