Definitions for generalist

generalist gen·er·al·ist

Spelling: [jen-er-uh-list]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛn ər ə lɪst/

Generalist is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1387 anagrams from letters in generalist (aeegilnrst).

Definitions for generalist

noun

  1. a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).

Origin of generalist

First recorded in 1605-15; general + -ist

Examples for generalist

What we have said about the specialist we could repeat by taking the opposite of the question for the generalist.

Woe to the specialist who is not a pretty fair generalist, and woe to the generalist who is not also a bit of a specialist.

When this nation of ours was born nearly every one was a generalist.

Be a generalist in pleasure and recreation, but not in business.

Pleasure and recreation are the only things in which an individual should be a generalist.

You could be a generalist—a poet/mollusk scientist/seafarer/surgeon.

Make the generalist think of himself in connection with large movements.

Finally if there is anything left over we can explore the possibility of outsourcing the task to a specialist or generalist.

He can do more for you and knows more of your case in five minutes' observation than the generalist would in three months.

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