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noun

Definition of specialistnext
as in professional
a person who has a lot of training, knowledge, or skill in a particular area She was a specialist in chemical engineering with many years of experience.

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adjective

variants or specialistic
as in specialized
involving, related to, or being special skills or knowledge needed to do a particular job The job requires specialist knowledge.

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Recent Examples of specialist
Noun
Like clockwork, the themeless specialist has returned for his 17th Friday offering for The New York Times, and his sixth this year. — Sean McGowan, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Doctors worked the elbow back into place, and X-rays showed no fracture, but Daniels was ruled out for the game and spent the last week hearing from specialists. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Adjective
Last year, specialist investment firm The Equity Studio took a multimillion-pound stake in Trip, although terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026 Rescue teams, helped by specialist crews from other countries including India and China, are concentrating their efforts on these hydropower stations. — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for specialist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for specialist
  1. professional
  2. specialized
  3. consultant
  4. expert
  5. master
  6. technical
  7. special
Noun
  • The series will be in focus during one of the pitching events that will showcase the projects to producers, buyers, investors and other audiovisual industry professionals.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026
  • In the middle of the waiting area, a young woman wearing a beige overcoat and a handsome leather backpack, looking like one of the thousands of professionals in the station, stood with Lojo’s colleagues.
    — Anand Giridharadas, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of professional
Adjective
  • Bass is particularly concerned by the relative lack of specialized intervention training for patrol officers who respond to the vast majority of service calls.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Using specialized computer codes, the team ran detailed safety analyses to model how the new fuel would behave under extreme conditions.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of specialized
Noun
  • Through the photos, the consultant will assess the patient’s hair loss using the Norwood-Hamilton Scale (which was developed by studying only male patients and is typically used to diagnose which stage of male pattern hair loss a person is in).
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Josh Benesh, a former Heritage Auctions executive who joined Christie’s as a consultant earlier this year, has been appointed to lead the division as its global head based in New York.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of consultant
Adjective
  • Here, Forbes Coaches Council members share their expert advice for evaluating a potential side gig while protecting performance at a day job and balancing personal commitments.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Anthropic said this type of genome-mining work could take an expert scientist weeks or months.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of expert
Noun
  • The university’s clinical mental health counseling master’s program has expanded to Charlotte, and Charlotte’s first graduate physician assistant program will welcome its inaugural class in January, officials said.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Billiter holds a master’s degree in public safety leadership and executive management from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in emergency services management from Union Institute and University.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of master
Adjective
  • The clue [Full of vivid detail, as a memory] solves to EIDETIC, the technical term for what’s more commonly known as a photographic memory.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Overcoming technical hurdles in core design Because the reactor layout is never fixed, scientists could not rely on a standard conversion design.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of technical
Adjective
  • Zelenskyy said Ukrainian special forces struck the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Samara, southeast of Moscow, and another refinery in the neighboring Bashkortostan region in overnight attacks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In this case, that’s Sarah Jones, a hugely adept impersonator of a variety of New York characters who, in 2006, won a special Tony for her one-person summoning of nearly all of Queens in Bridge & Tunnel.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
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“Specialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specialist. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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