antiprofessional
antiprofessional adjective: opposing professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
Adjective
antiprofessional (comparative more antiprofessional, superlative most antiprofessional)
- Opposing professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
- Opposing prostitution, or prostitutes; antiprostitution.
Noun
antiprofessional (plural antiprofessionals)
- 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.1990, Columbia Law Review, volume 90, numbers 5-8, page 1455
- If polygraphers have thrived, it is because they are consummate antiprofessionals...2008, Jan Widacki, European Polygraph n.3 2008/1, page 9
Forms of antiprofessional
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more antiprofessional |
| superlative | most antiprofessional |
| Noun | |
| plural | antiprofessionals |
Origin of antiprofessional
From anti- + professional.
Questions about antiprofessional
- What does antiprofessional mean?
- Antiprofessional means opposing professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
- What part of speech is antiprofessional?
- Antiprofessional can be an adjective or a noun.
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