Sideline
a sideline (noun) - something you in addition to your main job to earn extra money
a lucrative sideline
build up a lucrative sideline
a nice little sideline
a profitable sideline
a useful sideline
a sideline for Y
a sideline to X
started out as a sideline to Y
developing a sideline in Z
acquired Y as a sideline
an entertaining sideline
dabble in an entertaining sideline
Y is just sort of sideline for us
a successful sideline
a successful sideline for many
a specialist sideline
turn a hobby into a profitable sideline
her knitting sideline
a crafts business sideline
a sideline for housewives
owns Y as a sideline
a nice sideline in Z
keep up a bit of a sideline in Y
include as a sideline to their main trade
a sideline interest
Example sentences:
* "The markets' obsession with credit ratings has spawned a sideline for investment banks: advising clients how to spruce up their presentations to the rating agencies."
* She turned her flower arranging hobby into a lucrative sideline.
* Some sort of crafts business has become a nice little sideline for many housewives.
* Flower arrangements for weddings and funerals started out as a sideline to their main florist business.
* He turned his hobby into a business and is developing a nice little sideline in selling stamps from his large stamp collection.
* "On the island, where little wool was produced, hemp was the basis for a spinning and weaving industry, which provided a useful sideline for the average peasant, and a basic livelihood for the poor."
* "Frederick, who is developing a sideline in composing, plans to stay at school until after A-levels before going to a musical academy."
* "He may have inherited some of his eccentricity from his father, Bernard, who built up a vast multi-national engineering company from scratch and then acquired a circus as a sideline, training his own dancing stallions."
* "Sandie's true ambitions ran away from the desperate rat race and since then she had been content to dabble, treating her music as an entertaining sideline."
* How could such a specialist sideline, even held to be entirely unnecessary by some, ever have evolved?
* "Sometimes part-time Koi dealers decides to turn their hobby into a profitable sideline."
* "Charles was essentially a shopkeeper and pig butcher; he turned his waste animal fats into tallow candles, a foul-smelling process at best, to sell to those who chose not to make their own, and also kept up a bit of a sideline in cheese, a product for which the area was, of course, justifiably famous."
* "Whilst Robert Legg Snr and his cronies were enjoying a short-lived grandeur within the ill-fated United Company of Undertakers, the Upholders'; Company continued to support those members who furnished funerals as part of their everyday trade, though their list of admissions does not identify persons trading as coffin-makers or undertakers though they did admit upholders and mercers, who included funeral furnishing as a sideline to their main trade."
* "Nirvana and grunge are really sideline interests for the soft crust, who like a good melody with their nasal, mockney invectives, and hence favour groups who are, at heart, folk groups."
* "Then she told me about her knitting sideline."
* "It had sprung from his activities in the housing movement, but was run on straight commercial lines, providing an alternative removals service and producing a nice sideline in salvaged Victorian fireplaces which were sold to the new rich."
* "Keen on promoting venture capital, Viney owns a chain of wine bars as a sideline."
* "From the outset GKR concentrated exclusively on executive search, unlike Alexander Hughes and many other 1960s contemporaries, who clung either to management consultancy or selection as a sideline."
* It's a sideline, you might say.
* "This will be no mere sideline."
* "She also did a lucrative sideline in stolen goods and peddled information to the Dublin underworld, and she was reputed to be one of the most powerful and certainly one of the richest women in Dublin."
* "She built up a lucrative sideline by sending handwritten news reports to private correspondents, which could include items on parliamentary proceedings which were forbidden in print."
* It's sort of sideline.
* "Well, this business is just kind of like a sideline for us, the Game Genie Video Enhancer in not the normal kind of thing we do."
* "T-shirt printing is a successful sideline for many, and the former school's second classroom is to be converted into a gallery.
