subspecialize

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verb

To specialize within a particular area of a specialty.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

verbsubspecialize (third-person singular simple present subspecializes, present participle subspecializing, simple past and past participle subspecialized)

present singular third person subspecializes · participle present subspecializing · participle past subspecialized · past subspecialized · alternative subspecialise

  1. To specialize within a particular area of a specialty.
    1 more example

    Although most collectors subspecialize by genre, whether jazz or classical or country, it’s early American rural blues — loose acoustic laments, recorded before 1935 and performed by artists who were born in or near the Mississippi Delta — that inspires the highest prices and the most fevered pursuits.

    2009 July 12, Amanda Petrusich, “They’ve Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues”, in New York Times

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

subspecialize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subspecialize

MLA

“subspecialize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subspecialize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subspecialize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subspecialize.

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