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nontechnical

British  
/ nɒnˈtɛknɪkəl /

adjective

  1. not relating to, characteristic of, or skilled in a particular field of activity and its terminology

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Over the past few weeks, X let go of more than 20 staffers in nontechnical roles including marketing and other departments that were seen as duplicative to jobs inside the merged company, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The grid, through a combination of technical and nontechnical issues, loses almost half the load in delivery.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

“It’s hard to explain in a nontechnical fashion why what the prime minister did here is unreasonable,” said Professor Scheppele, the Princeton sociologist.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

It was only after allowing nontechnical employees to test the system on their commutes to and from work that Google’s team realized how troublesome the system was.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2023

Out of all those interests grew my most recent book, a nontechnical account of human evolution entitled The Third Chimpanzee.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond