Definition of "paraprofessional" []

• A trained worker who is not a member of a given profession but assists a professional. (noun)
• Of or performing the work of a paraprofessional. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In that incident, an unidentified staff member described as a paraprofessional used masking tape to cover a student's mouth."
• "“For Allison Sloan being a paraprofessional is a career path, not just a job,” noted Library Journal’s Editor-in-Chief Francine Fialkoff."
• ""For those reasons, our resource needs are most acute in the areas of information technology, data access and analysis, human expertise and paraprofessional and administrative support.""