Nearby Words

non-professional

[non-pruh-fesh-uh-nl]

non·pro·fes·sion·al

[non-pruh-fesh-uh-nl]
adjective
1.
not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
2.
Sports. not offering or engaged in for payment or a monetary prize; amateur: a nonprofessional league; a nonprofessional player.
noun
3.
a person who is not a professional.
4.
an amateur athlete.

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Non-professional is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1795–1805; non- + professional

non·pro·fes·sion·al·ism, noun
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