antiprofessional

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ professional.

Adjective

antiprofessional (comparative more antiprofessional, superlative most antiprofessional)

  1. Opposing professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
  2. (euphemistic) Opposing prostitution, or prostitutes; antiprostitution.

Noun

antiprofessional (plural antiprofessionals)

  1. One who opposes professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
    • 1990, Columbia Law Review, volume 90, numbers 5-8, page 1455:
      Fish is especially critical of the “antiprofessionals,” a group of academics who bridle against the hierarchical, self-perpetuating, and isolated nature of the universities in which they work.
    • 2008, Jan Widacki, European Polygraph n.3 2008/1, page 9:
      If polygraphers have thrived, it is because they are consummate antiprofessionals...