avocational

Examples

• All

• In brief, there is empirical evidence from the participants themselves that bicycle racing is more of an avocational interest than either an occupational or deviant one.

  Academic text (1991)

• An avocational mathematician and President of the United States, James Garfield, discovered an alternative proof.

  Academic text (2010)

• This, on the other hand, is driven not by avocational learning, but rather by workplace learning.

• The focus is career-oriented rather than avocational.

  Academic text (1994)

• Is bicycle racing an avocational subculture?

  Academic text (1991)

• Since avocational subcultures are germane here, let us contrast them with the two others.

  Academic text (1991)

• One 27-year-old man with achondroplasia was a partially trained avocational singer.

  Academic text (1995)

• In general, the participants are young, white males, reasonably well-off, and have an "avocational" interest in the sport as judged by the salience hierarchy of reasons for participation.

  Academic text (1991)

• Public history's original practitioners in the 20th century included both avocational and university-trained historians who shared an interest in identifying an American heritage distinct from, but equal in stature to, a European heritage.

  Academic text (2004)

• Many teachers engage in avocational hobbies like painting or writing in their free time.

Synonyms

N

nonvocational

vsavocational

1 6.3

Not related to training for a specific job

emphasizes personal interest activities rather than training for work

N

nonoccupational

vsavocational

1 5.1

Not related to your job

is about personal interest activities rather than main employment

E

extraprofessional

vsavocational

7.2

Happening or done outside your work duties

is about personal interest activities instead of professional duties

How Professional

professional

∞ 3.4

semipro

• Informal

1 4.4

recreational

82 3.9

avocational

1 8.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology