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professional victim

professional victim noun: a person who makes it their business to appear perpetually offended and victimized.

Noun

professional victim (plural professional victims)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic) A person who makes it their business to appear perpetually offended and victimized.
    • These professional victims get a lot of mileage out of their pain. Even though they complain that the price of change is so painful, they never really pay that price because it's too profitable for them not to.2018, Sam Bracken, Guts: Find Your Greatness, Beat the Odds, Live From Passion
  2. (derogatory, idiomatic) A person who sets himself or herself up to be an accident victim in order to collect insurance payments or compensation payments, or to get other benefits.

Forms of professional victim

pluralprofessional victims

Questions about professional victim

What does professional victim mean?
Professional victim means a person who makes it their business to appear perpetually offended and victimized.
What part of speech is professional victim?
Professional victim is a noun.
What is the plural of professional victim?
The plural of professional victim is professional victims.

Words near professional victim in the dictionary

  1. professional suicide
  2. professional support lawyer
  3. professional support lawyers
  4. professional universities
  5. professional university
  6. professional victim
  7. professional victims
  8. professional wrestler
  9. professional wrestlers
  10. professional wrestling
  11. professionalese

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