avocation
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Avocation had become obsession, locking him in a kind of fly-tying arms race with other practitioners of the art.
From National Geographic • Apr. 23, 2018
Avocation, music as a profession or as an, 156.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef
Avocation, vocation.—"Vocation means 'calling' or 'profession'; avocation, 'something aside from one's regular calling, a by-work.'"
From Practical Exercises in English by Buehler, Huber Gray
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