specialty
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- speciality (UK)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English specialte, Old French specialte, especialte, from Latin specialitas.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈspɛʃəlti/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]specialty (plural specialties) (Canada, US, Australia)
- That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
- They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
- 1858, Charles Kingsley, “My Winter-Garden”, in Fraser’s Magazine[1], volume 57, page 410:
- Even men of boundless knowledge, like Humboldt, must have had once their speciality, their pet subject, or they would have, strictly speaking, no knowledge at all.
- A product that originates in and is characteristic of a place.
- (obsolete) Particularity.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- The specialty of rule hath been neglected:
And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand
Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.
- A particular or peculiar case.
- An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
- (law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Let specialties be therefore drawne betweene vs,
That couenants may be kept on either hand.
- 1812, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on Pleading, with a Collection of Practical Precedents, and Notes Thereon, 2nd American edition, edited by Thomas Day, New York, Volume 2, section 456, note c,[2]
- […] in a plea to an action of debt on specialty, it is still necessary to show that the debt on which the judgment was recovered was a specialty, or to aver that the judgment was recovered before the defendant had notice of the plaintiff’s demand.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]that in which one specializes
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product that is characteristic of a place
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particularity — see particularity
particular or peculiar case
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attribute or quality peculiar to a species
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legal: contract or obligation under seal
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