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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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A pracademic is someone with one foot in academia and the other in practice, and I stumbled across the term one day while procrastinating on LinkedIn.
How I carved out a career as a ‘pracademic’ Julian Kirchherr 2025
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