antiprofessional

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ professional.

Adjective

antiprofessional (comparative more antiprofessional, superlative most antiprofessional)

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

Noun

antiprofessional (plural antiprofessionals)

1. One who opposes professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
   • 1990, Columbia Law Review, volume 90, numbers 5-8, page 1455:

     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.

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

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