Adjective : a nonpracticing physician.    From Dictionary.com. 

Such licensing firms are often called nonpracticing entities -- or, more derisively, patent trolls -- because they don't make or sell products that use patents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Start-Up Takes on 'Patent Trolls'] Reference

And while he knew she was a wizard, he also knew she was a nonpracticing wizard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Magic] Reference

I don't know this from personal knowledge, but I'm a nonpracticing lawyer, I used to teach law.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2002] Reference

Muslims are also not one distinct group … there are different levels from the most basic of practicing to nonpracticing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Anti-Muslim Congressman Has ‘No Intention Of Apologizing’] Reference

Hey, if nonpracticing lawyer Michael Newdow and nonlitigator-CPA-Certified Financial Planner Silvia Ibanez can do it, why not Johnnie Cochran?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Follow-up as to Tory v. Cochran:] Reference

Ms. Meehan, who was ordained in 2006, believes that a "more transparent, community model" can bring nonpracticing Catholics back into the fold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem With Liberation Ordination] Reference

Much of the debate has centered around Mr. Nay Win Maung, a nonpracticing medical doctor whose parents were teachers at a Myanmar military academy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myanmar Opposition Group Has New Tack: Cooperation] Reference

Such treatment of Christians and nonpracticing Muslims encouraged us to think that nonbelievers were inferior creatures and that it was right to hate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Saturday coffeehouse.] Reference

He and Eggleton (and those are two widely different styles!) are my two favorite currently practicing SF artists (to differentiate with my favorite nonpracticing SF artists!).    From Wordnik.com.  [SF Tidbits for 2/7/07] Reference

Lowenstein, a nonpracticing nurse-midwife who still works in women's health care in.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The grandparents who helped raise Mr. Obama were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog] Reference

Lawyers call such firms nonpracticing entities, NPEs, though they are often labeled as patent trolls.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

This event would inspire any would-be novelist, but O'Neill is both a lawyer (now nonpracticing) and a writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Instead, this nonpracticing half-Jew finds surprising support from a Bialystock rabbi she meets through a neighbor.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Politics] Reference

Deval Patrick's campaign, and he is a (nonpracticing) lawyer, so I'd say a state judgeship could definitely be in the works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hub Politics] Reference

Hassan is "a nonpracticing Muslim," Rogers said, while Bogulski stressed that Hassan "doesn't pray five times a day" as an obedient Muslim would.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami] Reference

The most significant weakness is that the OIN is powerless to defend against litigation brought by nonpracticing entities-also known as patent trolls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference

I admire Stephen King as well, but he’s a nonpracticing theist, not an atheist.    From Wordnik.com.  [What atheist/agnostic/adamantly non-religious people do you admire most? - 22 Words] Reference

His parents were nonpracticing Jews.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Nation, Under... Who?] Reference

H. RANDALL: H. is, but nonpracticing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 18, 2004] Reference

My father is a nonpracticing Lutheran.    From Wordnik.com.  [saturday thoughts] Reference

“A nonpracticing forensic pathologist.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep] Reference

To be sure, China has not confronted the incidence of nonpracticing entities (often referred to as.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Law Blog] Reference

"nonpracticing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference