Used in a Sentence

specialist

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for specialist.

Editorial note

The fact that a certain specialist has accessed a patient's records would reveal something about their health.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of specialist gathered in one view.

noun

Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

noun

An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.

noun

A stenotopic species.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for specialist.

Example sentences

1

The fact that a certain specialist has accessed a patient's records would reveal something about their health.

2

My work wouldn't make a particularly good read anyway as it's intended for a specialist audience and the mathematics get pretty involved.

3

There are often autism specialist centers of various kinds, for example at universities, and there are also psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize.

4

I'm a statistical machine learning specialist who uses graphical models to model signaling and metabolic pathways from 'omics data.

5

Hire an HR to find you inhouse specialist (it costs a lot) 2.

6

They are still literally hand-sharpened by old Japanese dudes in specialist workshops.

7

It looks like a bunch of prestigious authors held a press conference to convince non-specialist reporters that the end of civilization is a distinct possibility.

8

Their VP of Engineering has a PhD in acoustics and they employ other specialist PhD electrical engineers..

9

You contribute to a culture where it's okay to deny those people work; to segregate them in specialist housing; to deny them medical treatment; to kill them with lack of medical treatment.

10

If you make it easy for non-specialist users to encrypt their machine, and there is no way for technical support to recover their data, you're going to inevitably end up with angry users.

11

As a US citizen you should be filing US taxes regardless; Whether or not you owe anything to the IRS depends on a lot of factors, talk to a specialist if you have anything complicated going on.

12

Not sure what I would call it, Office Support Specialist or something suitably ambiguous I guess, the role is largely one of keeping the lights on, making sure the ISP is paid etc it's not a management role in the sense of dealing with staff etc.

Quote examples

1

Whether it makes more sense to defer to a specialist or invest in bringing a skill "in-house" is a function of how expensive the specialist is, how much investment it takes to gain the skill, and the duration and frequency of that skill's usefulness.

2

A "Mysql success specialist"* called me at work last week to see if there was any money to be made of us.

Proper noun examples

1

It goes under the name Optimus VI with PC Specialist.

2

I can help you improve your search platform with -Endeca (I'm a former employee of Endeca) -Google Search Appliance (Certified as Deployment Specialist) -ElasticSearch I've worked on the full stack of a search solution, from the modelling, data ingestion, configuration of relevancy and front-end integration I'm also experienced with the full stack development of a website.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use specialist in a sentence?

The fact that a certain specialist has accessed a patient's records would reveal something about their health.

What does specialist mean?

Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

What part of speech is specialist?

specialist is commonly used as noun.