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Specialized   /spˈɛʃəlˌaɪzd/   Listen
Specialized

adjective
1.
Developed or designed for a special activity or function.  Synonym: specialised.  Antonym: unspecialized.



Specialize

verb
1.
Become more focus on an area of activity or field of study.  Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialise.  Antonym: diversify.
2.
Be specific about.  Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specify.  Antonym: generalize.
3.
Suit to a special purpose.  Synonym: specialise.  "This kind of beak has become specialized in certain Galapagos finches"
4.
Devote oneself to a special area of work.  Synonym: specialise.  "This baker specializes in French bread"
5.
Evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment.  Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, speciate.



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"Specialized" Quotes from Famous Books



... be put into use except by a competent veterinarian. The complement-fixation test is a highly specialized laboratory test and can be carried out only by one versed in laboratory technique. (See Bureau ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... business of gas—its practical manufacture and distribution—and had never been particularly interested init. Street-railroading, his favorite form of municipal profit-seeking, and one upon which he had acquired an almost endless fund of specialized information, offered no present practical opportunity for him here in Chicago. He meditated on the situation, did some reading on the manufacture of gas, and then suddenly, as was his luck, found an implement ready ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... deliberate way, "but happily I have sufficient annual income from my father's estate to enable me to live until I become acquainted in a strange city, and have time to establish the kind of business I should care to handle. I am thinking of practising corporation law; I specialized in that, so I may have the pleasure before so very long of going after some of the men who do what you so aptly ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... stores carry this practice to the point of making specialized departments entirely independent of the general buying, production, and selling organizations whenever these fall short of the service offered outside; while the principle of stock distribution or other forms of profit sharing has been adopted ...
— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott

... with the organization of a research station for the study of the primates. For thus, evidently, scientific achievement in connection with these important types of animal might be vastly increased over what would be possible in a single relatively small institution with a limited and necessarily specialized staff of workers. ...
— The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes - A Study of Ideational Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes


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