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specialized

specialized adjective: highly skilled in, or specifically adapted to, a specific field. Also the simple past and past participle of specialize.

Adjective

specialized (comparative more specialized, superlative most specialized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) Highly skilled in, or specifically adapted to, a specific field.
    • Each of the most provocative selections is facing criticism that they lack the expertise and experience to run the vast, specialized bureaucracies that would be under their control.2024 November 18, Stephen Collinson, “Trump doubles down on provocative Cabinet picks as their fates hang in the balance”, in CNN

Also used as

specialized is also the simple past and past participle of specialize.

specialized meaning in Marathi

specialized in Marathi

विशेषीकृत

Examples of specialized in a sentence

  • A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • We can build a specialized part for you, but an off-the-shelf product will probably cost less.
  • The generalized formula applies to all cases, the specialized one only works on simple problems.

All 40 example sentences with specialized

Forms of specialized

comparativemore specialized
superlativemost specialized
alternative formspecialised

Words formed from specialized

Phrases with specialized

Questions about specialized

What does specialized mean?
Specialized means highly skilled in, or specifically adapted to, a specific field.
What is specialized in Marathi?
Specialized in Marathi is विशेषीकृत. See Specialized meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is specialized?
Specialized is an adjective.

Words near specialized in the dictionary

  1. speciality
  2. specializable
  3. specialization
  4. specializations
  5. specialize
  6. specialized
  7. specialized municipalities
  8. specialized municipality
  9. specializer
  10. specializers
  11. specializes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: specialized (page history and authors); specialized (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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