nonspecialist

See also: non-specialist

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Etymology

From non- +‎ specialist.

Adjective

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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