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subspecializing

subspecializing is the present participle and gerund of subspecialize.

Meaning of subspecialize

Verb

subspecialize (third-person singular simple present subspecializes, present participle subspecializing, simple past and past participle subspecialized)

  1. To specialize within a particular area of a specialty.
    • Although most collectors subspecialize by genre, whether jazz or classical or country, it’s early American rural blues — loose acoustic laments, recorded before 1935 and performed by artists who were born in or near the Mississippi Delta — that inspires the highest prices and the most fevered...2009 July 12, Amanda Petrusich, “They’ve Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues”, in New York Times

Questions about subspecializing

What is subspecializing the present participle and gerund of?
Subspecializing is the present participle and gerund of subspecialize.

Words near subspecializing in the dictionary

  1. subspecialization
  2. subspecializations
  3. subspecialize
  4. subspecialized
  5. subspecializes
  6. subspecializing
  7. subspecialties
  8. subspecialty
  9. subspeciation
  10. subspeciations
  11. subspecies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subspecializing (page history and authors); subspecialize (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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