Usually means: Secondary activity besides one's main job.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word sideline:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sideline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sideline: Merriam-Webster
  3. sideline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sideline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sideline: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sideline: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sideline, sideline: Wordnik
  8. sideline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sideline: Wiktionary
  10. sideline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sideline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sideline: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sideline: Dictionary.com
  14. sideline (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sideline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sideline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. sideline: Rhymezone
  18. sideline: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sideline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sideline: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sideline: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sideline: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sideline: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sideline: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Sideline: Sports Definitions

(Note: See sidelines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A line at the side of something.
noun:  Something that is additional or extra or that exists around the edges or margins of a main item.
noun:  A line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.
noun:  (sports) A line defining the side boundary of a playing field. Used in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball.
noun:  (sports, usually in the plural) The area outside the playing field beyond each sideline.
noun:  (figuratively) The outside or perimeter of any activity.
noun:  (Canada) A secondary road, especially a byroad at right angles to a main road.
noun:  (Philippines) A side hustle.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To place on the sidelines; to bench or to keep someone out of play.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To remove or keep out of circulation or out of the focus.

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