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- noun Someone who is both an
academic and an activepractitioner in theirsubject area. - adjective Pertaining to a type of
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Etymologies
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A portmanteau of practitioner and academic. The earliest reference may have been identified by a subscriber to Worldwide Words in 1973.
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