specialtyUS

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Topics & areas of interest
angle
backyard
bailiwick
centrism
con
convention
current issue
front
issue
kingdom
leitmotiv
province
score
specialism
subject
talk
talking point
thematically
themed
topically

specialitynoun[C] (BEHAVIOUR)

C1humorous
a particular thing that you regularly do or make: 常做之事
Unkind remarks are one of his specialities.发表苛刻的评论是他常干的事儿之一。

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Skill, talent and ability
ability
accomplishment
accuracy
acumen
adroitness
chop
endowment
functional skills
functioning
genius
gift
greatness
proficiency
prowess
pyrotechnic
pyrotechnics
qualification
repertory
wizardry
workmanship

speciality | Business English

speciality
noun[ C ]
(US alsospecialty)uk /ˌspeʃiˈæləti//ˈspeʃəlti/uspluralspecialities or specialities
a subject that someone knows a lot about:
The company's speciality in the North American market means it is some way ahead of its nearest rival.
a product that a company or place is well known for because it is extremely good:
Our restaurant offers a superb menu of local specialities at affordable prices.
The group's speciality is producing software to help drugs companies find new compounds.
speciality
adjective
(US alsospecialty)uk /ˌspeʃiˈæləti/us
used to describe something that has been designed for a particular purpose:
We're making a speciality product for speciality customers.
COMMERCE
used to describe a store or company that is extremely good at selling a particular product:
a specialty store/retailer

Examples of speciality

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Consultants from other specialities raised concerns, stemming from lack of involvement during the role-development process.
A model for the assessment of telemedicine and a plan for testing the model within five specialities.
Other reviews deal with the personal specialities of the authors, including those on escape from inactivation, and on comparison of human and mouse.
The dietary specialities of the species showed seasonal differences.
Evidently mediaeval thinking still has a powerful hold, even among educated people, especially when they go outside their own specialities.
Limitations of treatments: clinicians have little understanding for the symptom, differently managed between specialities.
Many of the district nurses were already managing themselves, if not across specialities then within their own teams.
Along with this development, medicine has been fragmented into numerous specialities and subspecialties, none of which are able to keep up to date with the whole any longer.
Besides generational differences, the contributors represent regional, chronological and thematic specialities, and their post-graduate publications, including the younger scholars represented here, often navigate the intersections of these concerns.
In secondary medical care specialities, a number of functional somatic syndromes have been described and have proliferated in step with the fracturing of general medicine into ever smaller components.
Medically unexplained symptoms : an epidemiological study in seven specialities.
The activity of district nursing overlapped with the other nursing specialities, but it functioned in different locations and with collaborations that extended beyond the immediate team.
As numbers of participants in many single disciplines were rather small an attempt was made to consider several specialities together for studying their association with physical character.
The mentor/ clinical tutor is vital here, as the training courses do not focus on issues specific to particular nursing specialities and so this must be covered with the mentor.
I agree with the retention of the instrument for guaranteeing traditional specialities, with the proviso that the rules for registration should be simplified.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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