Usually means: Focus expertise in specific area.
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  1. specialize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. specialize: Merriam-Webster
  3. specialize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. specialize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. specialize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. specialize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Specialize, specialize: Wordnik
  8. specialize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. specialize: Wiktionary
  10. specialize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. specialize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. specialize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. specialize: Dictionary.com
  14. specialize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. specialize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Specialize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Specialize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. specialize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. specialize: Rhymezone
  20. specialize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. specialize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. specialize: FreeDictionary.org
  23. specialize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. specialize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. specialize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. specialize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. specialize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. specialize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. specialize: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To make distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To go into specific details.
verb:  (rare, transitive) To specify: to mention specifically.
verb:  (uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.
verb:  (biology, transitive) To make distinct or separate due to form or function.
verb:  (intransitive) To become distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
verb:  To focus one's study upon a particular skill, field, topic, or genre.
verb:  To focus one's business upon a particular item or service.
verb:  (usually derogatory) To be known or notorious for some specialty.
verb:  (transitive) To train (someone) in a specialty.

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