avocation in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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As an avocation, he published books that admonished of the dangers of communism.
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Or rather, he's a novelist almost by avocation, since his vocation seems to be drinking.
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A jazz singer by avocation, her single mom supported the family doing accounting work.
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He returned to geology while continuing to pursue jazz as an avocation.
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I am a physician by occupation, an artist by avocation.
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By avocation, my father was a playwright.
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His avocation was composing songs and staging concerts and amateur theater productions, something to relieve the tedium of peacetime garrison duty.
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But 160 years ago, an educator (by avocation, not profession) gave it another name: capitalism.
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