specialist

comparative more specialist · superlative most specialist

1. UKSpecialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic.

   This was a highly specialist job, and it has been very carefully carried out so that it is very hard to see that these windows are now modern replacements.

   2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: Special Award: Signal Box Restoration”, in RAIL, number 946, page 57

plural specialists

1. Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

   Synonyms: aficionado, enthusiast, connoisseur

2. hobbiesA player on a team who primarily employs one particular skill or takes one particular role.

   Antonyms: all-rounder

3. medicineA physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.

   Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.

   2017 March 6, Jamie Koufman, “The Specialists’ Stranglehold on Medicine”, in The New York Times

   1 more example

   Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here.

   1964 September 24, “ROBERT L. HUTTON, DIAGNOSTICIAN, 83; Internist Dies —Had Been on Lincoln Hospital Staff”, in The New York Times

4. USgovernmentAny of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
5. An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.

   The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub.

6. A stenotopic species.
7. A sixth-former at Eton College.