English Online Dictionary. What means specialty? What does specialty mean?
English
Alternative forms
- speciality (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English specialte, Old French specialte, especialte, from Latin specialitas.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈspɛʃəlti/
Noun
specialty (plural specialties) (Canada, US, Australia)
- That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
- Near-synonym: discipline
- medical specialty; academic specialty
- A product that originates in and is characteristic of a place.
- (obsolete) Particularity.
- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
Related terms
- specialist
- subspecialty
- subspecialist