antiprofessional
nounEtymology From anti- + professional.
1
One who opposes professionals, or the treatment of something as a profession.
- 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:
- If polygraphers have thrived, it is because they are consummate antiprofessionals...2008, Jan Widacki, European Polygraph n.3 2008/1, page 9: