Hobby and Profession

Opposite meaning words

Hobby noun - An activity outside of one's regular occupation that is engaged in primarily for pleasure.

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Profession is an antonym for hobby in pleasurable pastime topic.

Nearby Word: hobbyist

Profession noun - The activity by which one regularly makes a living.

Usage example: a gifted communicator, he was very good at his chosen profession: teaching

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Hobby is an antonym for profession in declaration topic.

preferred	preferred hobby	preferred profession
old	old hobby	old profession
particular	particular hobby	particular profession
common	common hobby	common profession
Other adjectives: specific, separate, current, single, actual, entire, real, violent, dangerous, main, respectable, exciting, private, secret, new, major, former, unusual, strange, different, girly.

Sometimes Mickey's hobby of solving crimes is raised to this level of skill (and sometimes also made his profession), particularly when he goes up against a similarly elevated Phantom Blot.

Source: Great Detective
The younger guy is Miguel Bain, (Banderas) who is pretty much a psychopath who turned his hobby into a profession.

Source: Film / Assassins
Gandrayda also qualifies, she has an obvious reason to see Samus as her rival and enjoys her profession as a bounty hunter nothing more than just a hobby.

Source: Smug Super

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