specialise

CEFRB1

/ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/

verb

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01
verb
To focus on a particular skill, subject, or type of work.
02
verb
Extra detail
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of specialize.

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Our Sauiour specialising and nominating the places in which these false prophets should teach his presence to be.
Some centres specialise in timber, and those conveniently situated to the coalfields deal with large quantities of pit props.
Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.

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Our Sauiour specialising and nominating the places in which these false prophets should teach his presence to be.
1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, Proving Them to be Antichristian, section 261
Some centres specialise in timber, and those conveniently situated to the coalfields deal with large quantities of pit props.
1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 9
Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.
1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379
[Oily Cart] specialises in creating spectacular productions for young people with complex disabilities.
2012 December 26, Patrick Butler and Abby Young-Powell, “Oily Cart company specialises in theatre for youngsters with complex disabilities”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022
We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025

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From special + -ise.