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• n  the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose
• n  the special line of work you have adopted as your career
  his specialization is gastroenterology
• n  (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function

• Liberal arts colleges are also battling excessive specialization by calling attention to its dangers.
• Akiyama admitted that Hamanaka remained so long in the copper-trading section--23 years in all--"because of the expertise and specialization needed for the job.
• The chains are cutting into book-club sales and sweeping some small independent stores out of business or forcing them to rely more and more on discounting or specialization.

• specialisation
• specialty
• speciality
• specialism
• differentiation

News & Articles

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• Auburn Mountainview standout notches 12 varsity letters during prep career
  In an age of specialization for high school athletes, JJ Lacey is an anomaly. The 19-year-old Auburn Mountainview senior and the Auburn Reporter’s Male Athlete of the Year graduates this weekend as the school’s first student-athlete to earn 12 varsity sports letters. Lacey, who lettered in four different sports during his four-year prep career, considered focusing on his strongest sport ...
  June 13, 2013 - Auburn Reporter
• Ingram Micro Expands IM Link With New IBM Professional Services Specialists
  The North America Services Division of Ingram Micro Inc., the world’s largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and logistics solutions, recently announced it has expanded its IM Link services network to include an IBM Professional Services specialization that is available immediately to channel partners in the U.S. and ...
  June 13, 2013 - Business Solutions
• Bill Kuhlman Joins Smart Devine as Managing Director in Their Research & Development Tax Practice
  Smart Devine ( http://www.smartdevine.com ), the full-service accounting, tax and advisory firm, announces today that it has hired Bill Kuhlman as a Managing Director in their Research & Development (R&D) Tax Consulting practice. Kuhlman has 25 years of progressive tax experience and over seventeen years of R&D tax credit specialization. (PRWeb June 12, 2013) Read the full story at http://www ...
  June 12, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• John Major in Ottawa Citizen
  There is a need for greater specialization and a more concentrated focus on the means for investigating and supporting the prosecution of national security offences,Major said. "Perhaps the time has arrived to reassess the role of the RCMP...
• Eric Heiden in FOXNews
  I don't think it's going to happen again,Heiden said. "There's just too much specialization. You can have a very successful career just being very good in one distance."
• Howard Safir in Forbes
  The evolution of this unique dietary specialization probably took millions of years to refine. Our new discovery shows the great time depth of this unique bamboo-eating specialization in pandas. Thus, pandas have been 'uniquely pandas' for many... Russell Ciochon http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Ciochon&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFOKVnWdnfXr_Iu6twYyRb0YBukUA China Daily http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-06/19/content_897284.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGoVK2TxhdNeb7WEQMjL5JV63JvIw Jun 18, 2007 92896 123449 specialize We specialize in monitoring and integrity ...... to make sure there's no illegal activity involved, to make sure there's no organized crime presence and, in this case, to make sure there's no wagering" by players or others involved in the Open,...