designating a person who is not fully qualified in a profession, but who helps qualified professionals with their work
Bill is a very intelligent young man in his twenties with a bachelor's degree; heis making the transition from paraprofessional status to the beginnings of graduatestudy.
noun
2.
a paraprofessional person
A paraprofessional is a practitioner with some training but less comprehensive orextensive training than a full-fledged member of the profession.
paraprofessional in American English
(ˌpærəproʊˈfɛʃənəl)
noun
a worker trained to perform certain functions, as in medicine or teaching, but not licensed to practice as a professional
Word origin
para-1 + professional
Examples of 'paraprofessional' in a sentence
paraprofessional
"There's this one paraprofessional who's got this chest like a shelf, right?