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🏢 Not teaching staff 👔 A non-teacher worker
nonfaculty

nonfaculty

6.8
Not part of the teaching staff at a school or university
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈfælkəlti/
translation icon : no docente
  • Many nonfaculty members work in administration, maintenance, or student services.

Examples

  • The university provides parking permits for nonfaculty employees as well as professors.

  • The nonfaculty staff play a crucial role in the university.

  • The new policy affects both nonfaculty and faculty staff at the college.

  • Many nonfaculty members attended the annual conference.

  • The university provides parking permits for nonfaculty employees as well as professors.

  • Many nonfaculty members work in administration, maintenance, or student services.

  • The nonfaculty staff play a crucial role in the university.

Surface Forms

nonfaculty positive

Morphology

nonfaculty = faculty (transparent) = non + faculty

The prefix 'non-' productive negation applied to 'faculty' yields the straightforward meaning 'not faculty', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Nonfaculty comes from the parts non- meaning 'not' and faculty, which means the 'teaching staff' at a school or university. So nonfaculty used as an adjective describes people, jobs, or things that are 'not part of the teaching staff'.