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nonspecialist

nonspecialist adjective: not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.

Adjective

nonspecialist (not comparable)

  1. Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.

Noun

nonspecialist (plural nonspecialists)

  1. A person who is not a specialist in a given field
    • This engineering task is too difficult for nonspecialists.
    • "Books," to us, should have 150 to 1500 published pages, almost never need color, be typesettable in house, not require fold-out maps, be predominately ^([sic]) in English, and be titleable such that a nonspecialist could recommend it to a specialist.1987, William A. Katz, Robin Kinder, The Publishing and Review of Reference Sources, page 332

Synonyms of nonspecialist

Forms of nonspecialist

Adjective
alternative formnon-specialist
Noun
pluralnonspecialists

Origin of nonspecialist

From non- + specialist.

Questions about nonspecialist

What does nonspecialist mean?
Nonspecialist means not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.
What part of speech is nonspecialist?
Nonspecialist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonspecialist in the dictionary

  1. nonspeakers
  2. nonspeaking
  3. nonspecial
  4. nonspecialised
  5. nonspecialising
  6. nonspecialist
  7. nonspecialists
  8. nonspecialized
  9. nonspecializing
  10. nonspecialty
  11. nonspecie

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