"weekend warrior" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-weekend warrior.ogg [Australia] Forms: weekend warriors [plural]
Etymology: weekend + warrior. First attested 1956. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|weekend|warrior}} weekend + warrior Head templates: {{en-noun}} weekend warrior (plural weekend warriors)
  1. A part-time soldier, or reservist
    Sense id: en-weekend_warrior-en-noun-enny9gha
  2. (idiomatic) A person who indulges in a sport or pastime on an infrequent basis, usually on weekends when work commitments are not present. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): People Synonyms (infrequent participant in sport or pastime): amateur, dabbler
    Sense id: en-weekend_warrior-en-noun-Kj-tEEgO Disambiguation of People: 0 100 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 74 Disambiguation of 'infrequent participant in sport or pastime': 9 91

Inflected forms

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