nonspecialist

See also: non-specialist

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Etymology

From non- +‎ specialist.

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nonspecialist (not comparable)

  1. Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.

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Noun

nonspecialist (plural nonspecialists)

  1. A person who is not a specialist in a given field
    This engineering task is too difficult for nonspecialists.
    • 1987, William A. Katz, Robin Kinder, The Publishing and Review of Reference Sources, page 332:
      "Books," to us, should have 150 to 1500 published pages, almost never need color, be typesettable in house, not require fold-out maps, be predominately [sic] in English, and be titleable such that a nonspecialist could recommend it to a specialist.

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