nonprofessional
[non-pruh-fesh-uh-nl]
- not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- Sports. not offering or engaged in for payment or a monetary prize; amateur: a nonprofessional league; a nonprofessional player.
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- a person who is not a professional.
- an amateur athlete.
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Origin of nonprofessional
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For the ulceration it is useless to prescribe, because it can neither be diagnosed nor topically treated by the nonprofessional.
Special Report on Diseases of the HorseUnited States Department of Agriculture
Another and oftentimes fatal mistake made by the nonprofessional is the indiscriminate and reckless use of aconite.
Special Report on Diseases of the HorseUnited States Department of Agriculture
There was nothing more he could do at the moment—the autosurgeon's decisions were safer than any nonprofessional's guesswork.
The Winds of TimeJames H. Schmitz
It is more vividly brought home to us from the nonprofessional, the disinterested and involuntary testimony of secular writing.
Preaching and PaganismAlbert Parker Fitch
nonprofessional
- not of, relating to, suitable for, or engaged in a profession
- not undertaken or performed for gain or by people who are paid
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