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Definition of specialized adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

specialized

adjective
 
/ˈspeʃəlaɪzd/
 
/ˈspeʃəlaɪzd/
(British English also specialised)
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  1. designed or developed for a particular purpose or area of knowledge
    • specialized equipment
    • a job calling for highly specialized skills
    • Our industry is quite specialized.
    Extra Examples
    • These tools are very specialized.
    • This bird is highly specialized for eating fish.
    • narrowly specialized subjects
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • become
    adverb
    • highly
    • very
    • increasingly
    preposition
    • for
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