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antiprofessional

adj

Etymology

From anti- + professional.

  1. inherited from professhennalle
  2. prefixed as antiprofessional — “anti + professional”

Definitions

  1. Opposing professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.

  2. Opposing prostitution, or prostitutes

    Opposing prostitution, or prostitutes; antiprostitution.

  3. One who opposes professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.

    • 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.
    • If polygraphers have thrived, it is because they are consummate antiprofessionals...

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA