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overspecialise

overspecialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overspecialize.

Meaning of overspecialize

Verb

overspecialize (third-person singular simple present overspecializes, present participle overspecializing, simple past and past participle overspecialized)

  1. To specialize to an excessive degree.
    • The tendency to overspecialize is also noticeable in the county. Some farmers are growing fruit to the exclusion of all other crops; some carry the practice a step further and grow only peaches.1915, E. H. Anderson, “Niagara County: An Account of Its Agriculture and of Its Farm Bureau”, in Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and of...

Forms of overspecialise

third-person singular presentoverspecialises
present participleoverspecialising
past participleoverspecialised
pastoverspecialised

Origin of overspecialise

From over- + specialise.

Questions about overspecialise

What is overspecialise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Overspecialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overspecialize.

Words near overspecialise in the dictionary

  1. overspeak
  2. overspeaking
  3. overspeaks
  4. overspecialisation
  5. overspecialisations
  6. overspecialise
  7. overspecialised
  8. overspecialises
  9. overspecialising
  10. overspecialization
  11. overspecializations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overspecialise (page history and authors); overspecialize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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