specialize
verb (used without object)
to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty.
overspecialize
-
a word derived from
specialize.
Example Sentences
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The new Nobel laureate is somewhat critical of his own profession, maintaining that too many economists today overspecialize and do not know enough history and psychology.
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