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  • noun Someone who is both an academic and an active practitioner in their subject area.
  • adjective Pertaining to a type of teaching style for entrepreneurs

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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