nonsuperstar en · NOUN
Etymology
From non- + superstar.
Meanings
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One who is not a superstar.
Employees on the nonsuperstar rungs of many industries can ask a less personal kind of intermediary for career-management help: employment Web sites like freeagent.com, guru.com and monster.com.
2000 July 16, Elaine S. Silver, “PERSONAL BUSINESS; Agents? Call Them Career Customizers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2024:In a way it is comforting, perhaps even life affirming, for the majority of human beings, nonsuperstars, to think they have chosen the other course.
2008 January 27, Jenny Lyn Bader, “When Icons Die Young”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nonsuperstars | Number=Plur | lexicographic |