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specialist

[spesh-uh-list]

noun

a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.

a medical practitioner who devotes attention to a particular class of diseases, patients, etc.

U.S. Army. an enlisted person of one of four grades having technical or administrative duties, the grades corresponding to those of corporal through sergeant first class but not requiring the exercise of command.

Stock Exchange. a member of an exchange who executes orders in his or her name or for other stockbrokers in a single stock or a particular group of stocks and thus helps maintain the market in those securities on that exchange.

Origin:
1855–60; special + -ist

Related forms

non·spe·cial·ist, noun, adjective

pre·spe·cial·ist, noun

sub·spe·cial·ist, noun

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Contact an advertising specialist for more information.

His specialist subjects these days include global health, alternative energy technologies and evolutionary psychology.

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Contact an advertising specialist for more information.

His specialist subjects these days include global health, alternative energy technologies and evolutionary psychology.

Last summer, the cooperative hired a specialist to manage the cooperative's breeding program.

Wrangham is a chimp researcher, the skeptics point out, not a specialist in human evolution.

In order to run a training program, you need to be board certified, to be a specialist in zoo medicine.

But if you want your pick of a broad range of flower and plant forms, try a specialist.

Our veteran space security specialist believes there are several.

The candidate should be a specialist in new media composing.

As if that were not bad enough, a scandal has escalated over the exchange's specialist firms, which make prices in shares.

There is not even a substantial minority of specialist who say that sea rise is over stated.

Usually museums hire out to specialist companies to mount their skeletons.

If you can't find what you want locally, try a specialist or a mail-order source.

If you have an oil or a jam-making thermometer, a specialist deep-fryer is uneccesary.

Primary care is yes not lucrative but being a specialist is another story.

Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly partnering with smaller specialist firms and academia.

Another specialist said the total load could be well over five pounds if more explosives were smuggled in the stomach.

To become a scholar, you must become both a specialist and a generalist.

Anyone who has slalomed through the avalanche of specialist tomes on the crisis will recognise many of his sources.

Readers, please tell us about any other specialist handsets in the comments.

It required no specialist in child psychology to predict that this developmental phase would be finite.

Others wonder whether there will be enough of the specialist chemicals that coat cells.

But it could become a niche product, and the specialist tool of the professional.

Chronicle and others do a quite good job in these exposes, but these are specialist media.

He was even on the advisory board of a renowned specialist journal.

There is nothing strange in him telling me to see a specialist.

Few specialist writers have copy editors who are trained at the same level in that.

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World English Dictionary

specialist (ˈspɛʃəlɪst)

—n
1.	a. a person who specializes in or devotes himself to a particular area of activity, field of research, etc
	b. (as modifier): specialist knowledge
2.	an enlisted rank in the US Army denoting technical qualifications that entitle the holder to a noncommissioned officer's pay
3.	ecology Compare generalist an organism that has special nutritional requirements and lives in a restricted habitat that provides these

special'istic

—*adj*

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Medical Dictionary

specialist spe·cial·ist (spěsh'ə-lĭst)
n.
A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery, especially one who is certified by a board of physicians.

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