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paraprofessional|ˌpærəprəʊˈfɛʃənəl|
[f. para-1 + professional a. (n.).]
A person without professional training to whom a particular aspect of a professional task is delegated. Also as adj., of or pertaining to such a person.
1967Maclean's Mag. May 64 There is some talk now of using para-professional help, trained on the job like interns. In some schools, mothers already are supervising lunch hours and study periods. 1968Bull. Council for Basic Educ. (U.S.) June 2 The future student..would discover other quaint educational terms which are currently fasionable... ‘Paraprofessional’ is one, meaning a mother who helps the kindergarten teacher in putting on children's overshoes. 1971Harvard Business Rec. Nov.–Dec. 39/2 The understandable reluctance of the physician to delegate tasks to paraprofessionals. 1972N.Y. Law Jrnl. 22 Aug. 3/5 Another paraprofessional in our office is a retired police officer, presently responsible for..important trial preparation functions. 1974Yale Law Jrnl. LXXXIII. 806 In many professions greater use of paraprofessional employees could help to solve problems in the delivery of professional services. 1975Publishers Weekly 22 Sept. 89/1 A paraprofessional's view of how to survive breast cancer. 1976Maclean's Mag. 17 May 26/1 Basford also stressed the need for developing native lawyers and para-professional court workers for small settlements. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 872/4 The personal service ideologies of medical professionals, para⁓professionals, indigenous non-professionals. |