used todescribesomeone who does something not astheirjobbut because they areinterestedin it:There arecertainindicatorsthatsignalanupturnthat may not beobviousto non-professionalinvestors.HRused todescribeajobthat does not need a highleveloftrainingoreducation:Thecompanygavespecialbonusestoitsnonprofessionalstaff.
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unprofessional(Definition ofnon-professionalfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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non-professionalTraditional, materialist and positivist archaeologists as well as mostnon-professionalinterpreters seem to put a greater emphasis on the archaeological remains of a vanished past.From theCambridge English CorpusThe innovative variants are used by the youngernon-professionalspeakers, especially females, who use more of the open schwa-like pronunciations.From theCambridge English CorpusThe first was a national telephone survey of 3,466 adults in 2002 that explored the prevalence and nature ofnon-professionalasset management.From theCambridge English CorpusFor the most part, however,non-professionaldiscourses surrounding the recorded voice treat it as extremely close reproduction rather than rendition or a representation.From theCambridge English CorpusI do believe that an experiencednon-professionalcan guide and model students, though not necessarily teach.From theCambridge English CorpusThe most general feature of the male active lexicon is the transfer of professional vocabulary into casualnon-professionalconversation.From theCambridge English CorpusThis model provides the academically prepared teacher an immediate advantage over the inexperienced,non-professionalteacher.From theCambridge English CorpusSometimes it takes the form of professional or technical assistance, at other times it either assists with or substitutes fornon-professionalcare.From theCambridge English CorpusThese are commercial farmers, shopkeepers, craft market peddlers and any other form ofnon-professionalself-employment without a regular income.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, the distinction between a professional and anon-professionaltattooist was not always clear.From theCambridge English CorpusAttitudes were unaffected by learning disability training andnon-professionalcontact.From theCambridge English CorpusThenon-professionalmales are less relatively conservative than the other groups, par ticularly the older nonprofessional males.From theCambridge English CorpusIn addition to testing conditions, thenon-professionalnature of the sample may also help explain fourth graders' displaying more sophisticated definitional form than their parents.From theCambridge English CorpusThe professional females are therefore at one end of the scale of relative conservatism and thenon-professionalmales at the other.From theCambridge English CorpusIrrigation was carried out whenever self-harvesters believed it was necessary, according tonon-professionaldecision criteria.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/non-professional##
