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professional victims

professional victims is the plural of professional victim.

Meaning of professional victim

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.

Questions about professional victims

What is professional victims the plural of?
Professional victims is the plural of professional victim.

Words near professional victims in the dictionary

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

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