respecialization

plural respecializations

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of specializing again in a different way, especially in a different field or domain.

   After she completed her doctorate in applied research, she entered the postdoctoral respecialization program in clinical psychology at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, to obtain the equivalent of a doctorate in clinical phychology.

   2025 February, Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green, Kyan Lynch, editors, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream, State University of New York Press, page 326

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   The process of specializing general roots, which is so much more prominent in the historical period of language than the process of generalization, is often only a respecialization of roots, at first special, then general, and at last special once more.

   1887, Friedrich Max Müller, The Science of Thought, volume 2, Scribner, page 388

   Proposals dealt with revision of personnel policies, career change options, support systems for faculty facing termination, exchange of faculty with other institutions, and respecialization in new or related subjects in order to meet needs of institutions and students in the 1980's.

   1979, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Herbert Knox Smith, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Tobacco Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 17