- [countable] an activity that you do as well as your main job in order to earn extra money
- His hobby of winemaking was fast becoming a profitable sideline.
Extra Examples- He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.
- She is developing a nice little sideline in babysitting for friends.
- The restaurant started out as a sideline to his main business.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- lucrative
- nice
- …
- have
- develop
- sideline for
- sideline in
- sideline to
- …
- sidelines[plural] the lines along the two long sides of a sports field, tennis court, etc. that mark the outer edges; the area just outside these
- The coach stood on the sidelines yelling instructions to the players.
Idioms
See sideline in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryon/from the sidelines
- watching something but not actually involved in it
- I had to watch from the sidelines as they destroyed the business I had built.
- She has chosen to remain on the sidelines of public debate.
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