- 1半職業（有收費，但不是正職。不是「不太專業」；那比較像 unprofessional）
A semi-professional sports player, musician, or actor gets paid for the sport or the art, but it is not their main job. They may play in a lower league for a fee, take money for a wedding gig, then go back to an office on Monday.
It is an adjective, and also a noun: she is a semi-professional. Sports pages use it a lot. Though actually, the line is messy. Some semi-professionals train almost like full professionals; some get only a little money. The word is about pay and time, not about whether the playing is “good enough.”
Do not hear it as a polite way to say “a bit amateur” or “not very skilled.” That is a different complaint (). Semi-professional means part of your living comes from it, but not the whole living.
semi-professional 指的是因為某項運動或藝術而拿到錢，但它不是這個人的正職。他可能在較低階的聯賽打球收費，接婚宴表演拿報酬，星期一又回去上班。
它可以當形容詞，也可以當名詞，例如「she is a semi-professional」就是說她是半職業的。這個字在體育新聞裡很常見。
它談的是收入和時間，不是技術夠不夠好。unprofessional 則是另一個畫面，指做事態度不夠專業，和錢或時間沒有關係，所以不要把兩個字混在一起。
From the word’s history
From semi- + professional.
由 semi-「半」加 professional「職業的」組成。
組成semi- (“half / partly,” from Latin sēmi-) + professional (doing it as a paid job).
同家族的字
- professionalthe full form: this is your main paid work
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
semi-professionaladj
- 1
playing for pay on a part-time basis
- 2
composed of semi-professional players
semi-professionalnoun
- 1
A semi-professional sportsman or athlete
- 2
A person in a salaried job, usually not well paid, with some limited skilled or technical components.
- They are often semi-professionals or lower-paid professionals living in cities or commuter towns.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。