unprofessional

Examples of non-professional

non-professional
Traditional, materialist and positivist archaeologists as well as most non-professional interpreters seem to put a greater emphasis on the archaeological remains of a vanished past.
The innovative variants are used by the younger non-professional speakers, especially females, who use more of the open schwa-like pronunciations.
The first was a national telephone survey of 3,466 adults in 2002 that explored the prevalence and nature of non-professional asset management.
For the most part, however, non-professional discourses surrounding the recorded voice treat it as extremely close reproduction rather than rendition or a representation.
I do believe that an experienced non-professional can guide and model students, though not necessarily teach.
The most general feature of the male active lexicon is the transfer of professional vocabulary into casual non-professional conversation.
This model provides the academically prepared teacher an immediate advantage over the inexperienced, non-professional teacher.
Sometimes it takes the form of professional or technical assistance, at other times it either assists with or substitutes for non-professional care.
These are commercial farmers, shopkeepers, craft market peddlers and any other form of non-professional self-employment without a regular income.
However, the distinction between a professional and a non-professional tattooist was not always clear.
Attitudes were unaffected by learning disability training and non-professional contact.
The non-professional males are less relatively conservative than the other groups, par ticularly the older nonprofessional males.
In addition to testing conditions, the non-professional nature of the sample may also help explain fourth graders' displaying more sophisticated definitional form than their parents.
The professional females are therefore at one end of the scale of relative conservatism and the non-professional males at the other.
Irrigation was carried out whenever self-harvesters believed it was necessary, according to non-professional decision criteria.
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