Word Meanings - NONPROFESSIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

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• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDING
  The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• PROFESSIONALISM
  The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; - - opposed to Ant: amateurism.
• USAGE
  1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• USAGER
  One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
• PROFESSION
  The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order. (more info) 1. The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. A solemn vow, promise, and
• PROCEEDS
  That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
• PROFESSIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional." Macaulay. "A professional
• PROFESSIONALIST
  professional person.
• PROFESSIONALLY
  In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
• HOUSAGE
  A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers.
• NONPROFESSIONAL
  Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.
• DISUSAGE
  Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.
• SPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Bale.
• ESPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Latimer.
• MISUSAGE
  Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.
• SAUSAGE
  1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.
• UNUSAGE
  Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
• SUBCONTRARY
  Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when