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layperson

noun as in amateur person, not trained in religious or other profession

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He explains why in terms a layperson can understand: “Trains suck up leaves under the wheels and you get black surface on the wheels and if it’s wet it gets really slippery.”

From BBC

Adding a biometric identifier increases the value of a customer dataset, which already includes more personal information than a layperson could conceive of: demographics, address, contact information, education, ethnicity, purchase history, personal preferences, children, family members, recent behaviors, and so much more.

From Slate

A layperson might mistake the job that swept her across the ocean as “bodyguard.”

If that sounds a bit vague to the layperson, its target is crystal clear to legal experts: It’s aimed at right-wing activists and politicians who have filed their cases in federal courthouses presided over by highly partisan judges in Texas.

Where babies are harmed because of clinical negligence, the projected payouts can appear very sizable to the layperson.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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