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nontechnical

British  
/ nɒnˈtɛknɪkəl /

adjective

  1. not relating to, characteristic of, or skilled in a particular field of activity and its terminology

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The social-media company let go of its chief marketing officer and more than 20 staffers in nontechnical roles that were seen as duplicative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The grid, through a combination of technical and nontechnical issues, loses almost half the load in delivery.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

“It’s hard to explain in a nontechnical fashion why what the prime minister did here is unreasonable,” said Professor Scheppele, the Princeton sociologist.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

It was only after allowing nontechnical employees to test the system on their commutes to and from work that Google’s team realized how troublesome the system was.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2023

Out of all those interests grew my most recent book, a nontechnical account of human evolution entitled The Third Chimpanzee.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond