nonspecialist

alternative non-specialist

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

plural nonspecialists · alternative non-specialist

1. A person who is not a specialist in a given field

   This engineering task is too difficult for nonspecialists.

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   "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