déformation professionnelle
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French
Etymology
Literally, “professional distortion”, a play on formation professionnelle (“job training”).
Pronunciation
Noun
déformation professionnelle f (countable and uncountable, plural déformations professionnelles)
- (uncountable) job conditioning (tendency to look at things from the point of view of one's own profession or expertise)
- 2012, Isaure, Bertrand Ferrier, Mémoires d'une femme de ménage, Grasset, →ISBN:
- La déformation professionnelle, chez une bonne, ne consiste pas à jauger le degré de propreté d’autrui avec une infaillibilité d’éléphant anticipant l’arrivée du tsunami. […] Elle consiste plutôt à évaluer la quantité de travail qu’il faudrait pour nettoyer la saleté que je vois.
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- (countable) instance of giving in to job conditioning
Further reading
déformation professionnelle on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
