spe‧cial‧i‧za‧tion (also specialisation British English) /ˌspeʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Word Family: noun: special, specialist, SPECIALITY/SPECIALTY, specialization, specialism; adjective: special, specialized; verb: specialize; adverb: specially]

1. an activity or subject that you know a lot about

2. the practice of limiting your interests or activities to one particular subject:
industrial specialization

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specialization
noun
ADJ. increased, increasing | narrow His specialization is too narrow to be of interest to more than a handful of students.
professional | academic | economic There has been increased economic specialization throughout the country.
regional
QUANT. degree The production line involves a high degree of specialization of labour.
PREP. ~ in Her degree is in French, with specialization in seventeenth-century literature.
PHRASES an area of specialization The company has gradually focused on its current areas of specialization.

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