specialer

1. comparativecomparative form of special: more special

   They're always special, but last night was 'specialer.'

   2013, Wayne Detzler, Emerging Awakening—A Faith Quake, →ISBN

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   Maples acknowledged the peculiar compliment with a smile, but Trump, groping for an even specialer moment, then asked, "How's mine?"

   1991 October, “Naked City: The Usual Suspects”, in Spy, page 26

   When you're that hungry, something boring like nuts can feel even specialer than a whole bowl of candy when you're already full.

   2018, Alana Terry, Flower Swallow, →ISBN

plural specialers

1. A nurse or aide assigned to provide one-on-one observation of a patient.

   Monitors are responsible for making sure that all specialers and checkers are performing their tasks, and that no inappropriate behavior is taking place.

   1969, The New York Times Magazine, page 111

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   When the patient being specialed has a visitor, the specialer may leave him with the visitor with the understanding that the visitor is to return the patient to his specialer before leaving the floor.

   1974, Jerrold S. Maxmen, Gary J. Tucker, Michael D. LeBow, Rational hospital psychiatry: the reactive environment, page 255

   Staff was relieved of much of the burden of specialing disturbed patients, and the input of information about such patients was maintained by including the patient "specialer" as a participant in nursing reports.

   1974, Richard Almond, The Healing Community: Dynamics of the Therapeutic Milieu, page 17