specialized
invested with a special character or restricted to a special function or field of activity: He campaigned for a specialized burn department to be established at the hospital.The humanities, once a highly specialized pursuit, have rapidly become a much broader conversation.
Biology. (of an organism or organ) adapted to a special function or environment:If the coastal sage scrub were to vanish, so would these specialized species of insects that are dependent on it.
the simple past tense and past participle of specialize.
Origin of specialized
1- Also especially British, spe·cial·ised .
Other words from specialized
- non·spe·cial·ized; especially British, non·spe·cial·ised, adjective
- o·ver·spe·cial·ized; especially British, o·ver·spe·cial·ised, adjective
- un·spe·cial·ized; especially British, un·spe·cial·ised, adjective
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How to use specialized in a sentence
Each nation had, he thought, some distinct and specialised service to render to humanity.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingWe shall become specialised people—people overshadowed by a situation.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsBriefly stated, the doctrine is this: It is untrue that certain nations are specialised either for industry or for agriculture.
Comrade Kropotkin | Victor RobinsonHe found that though in the brome-grasses the rust peculiar to them is specifically identical its forms are highly specialised.
All these lines of utility are better served by a larger number of more highly specialised servants.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein Veblen
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