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“specialized”
specialize (verb), specializes; specialized; specializing
To concentrate on and to become an expert in a particular subject, vocation, or skill: As a medical doctor, Monroe specialized in surgical transplants of body organs.
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Karin's brother is an auto mechanic who specializes in the repair of trucks.
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spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective
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(Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud")
(Greek: crowlike; used in the specialized sense of "pertaining to, or connected to the coracoid, the bony process that forms part of the scapular arch [and is so named because its shape resembles that of a crow's beak"])
(Greek: sweet; used in the specialized sense of "sweet, syrupy liquid")
(Greek: breast; used in the specialized sense as "of or pertaining to the breast-shaped mastoid process of the temporal bone)
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“specialized”
To concentrate on a field of study in order to become an expert in a particular subject, vocation, or skill. (1)
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