nonprofessional
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- adjective
- /ˌnɒnprəˈfɛʃənl/
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no profesional
- Social workers on the multidisciplinary teams first identified the need to better understand how nonprofessional caregivers help people with serious mental illness.
- nonprofessional voice
- nonprofessional voice users
- nonprofessional caregivers
Examples
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Thus, it is critical to examine caregiver perspectives on their work because little is known about how nonprofessional caregivers help their residents and how the help they provide compares with that of social workers.
Academic text (2008) -
Many nonprofessional artists display their work in local galleries for the community to enjoy.
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So fans, as a group, are coming at the situation from an outside, nonprofessional perspective.
Blog text (17) -
Professional, nonprofessional, and volunteer staff must recognize that they all need to protect information of a confidential and private nature.
Academic text (2004) -
Because healthcare employees may be nonprofessional, the manager's ability to motivate employees to quality performance is particularly important.
Academic text (1998) -
Put simply, practical theology was construed as a simplified version of academic theology, prepared for the nonprofessional.
Academic text (1990) -
She attended the conference to network with nonprofessional writers like herself.
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Nonprofessional athletes often join local leagues to stay active and meet new friends.
Synonyms
Below the skill or quality of a trained expert
Antonyms
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonprofessional = professional (transparent) = non + professional
The productive negative prefix 'non-' straightforwardly negates 'professional', yielding 'not professional' with no special idiomatic shift.
Etymology
Nonprofessional is made of non- meaning 'not' and professional, a word for someone who is paid or trained in a job. So nonprofessional describes people or activities that are 'not' done by trained or paid experts.