Meaning of specialty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent; bailiwick
2. That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent; bailiwick.
   Australia, Canada, US
3. A product that originates in and is characteristic of a place
4. A product that originates in and is characteristic of a place.
   Australia, Canada, US
5. Particularity
6. Particularity.
   Australia, Canada, US, obsolete
7. A particular or peculiar case
8. A particular or peculiar case.
   Australia, Canada, US
9. An attribute or quality peculiar to a species
10. An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
    Australia, Canada, US
11. A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
    Australia, Canada, US

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: discipline”

“medical specialty”

“academic specialty”

“They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.”

“The doctor ordered a consultation with another doctor in a different specialty.”

“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.”

“regional specialty”

“house specialty”

“The specialty of rule hath been neglected: And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.”

“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, […] 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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