antiprofessional

comparative more antiprofessional · superlative most antiprofessional

1. Opposing professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
2. euphemisticOpposing prostitution, or prostitutes; antiprostitution.

plural antiprofessionals

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

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

   2008, Jan Widacki, European Polygraph n.3 2008/1, page 9

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   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