Definitions for specialist

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specialist spe·cial·ist

Spelling: [spesh-uh-list]

IPA: /ˈspɛʃ ə lɪst/

Specialist is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 768 anagrams from letters in specialist (aceiilpsst).

Definitions for specialist

noun

1. a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
2. a medical practitioner who devotes attention to a particular class of diseases, patients, etc.
3. U.S. Army. an enlisted person of one of four grades having technical or administrative duties, the grades corresponding to those of corporal through sergeant first class but not requiring the exercise of command.
4. Stock Exchange. a member of an exchange who executes orders in his or her name or for other stockbrokers in a single stock or a particular group of stocks and thus helps maintain the market in those securities on that exchange.

Origin of specialist

First recorded in 1855-60; special + -ist

Examples for specialist

The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him.

The specialist has been described as a "man who knows more and more about less and less."

So specialist BJ with the call sign of "Butter-Cup" sleep on and take your rest.

If you travel very often (perhaps for work), it pays to sit down with a specialist.

I'm going to set up as a specialist, a brain specialist, for clams.

He leaves it to the specialist, which is as if he should leave his dinner to be eaten by a steam-engine.

I knew only that the hit was commissioned; the man who took the contract was a specialist.

Without this specialist 24-hour care Ashya is at risk of additional health complications, which place him at substantial risk.

This “makes the patient have a more negative attitude toward games,” one specialist says.

A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.