specialistn.adj.

1839 Q. Rev. Oct. 422 The economists, the jurists, the specialists (or practical men), the theorists, the formalists, the generalisers, the phraseologists, and the interrupters.

1867 H. Spencer First Princ. (ed. 2) ii. i. §36 130 Even the most limited specialist would not describe as philosophical, an essay which [etc.].

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 9 To associate with her complement of scientific officers a civilian staff of specialists.

1924 M. Baring C xvi. 187 Mr. Owen..was a specialist in preparing boys for Oxford and Cambridge.

1955 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 311/2 The champion ‘draw specialists’ of the season were Accrington Stanley.

1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 14 Dec. 15/8 (advt.) Derby's leading boyswear and schoolwear specialists.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Sept. 6/2 Before that, he was a West Europeanist, a specialist in the intellectual and political history of France.

1839 Med. Examiner 21 Dec. 815/2 I do not place much reliance on his statement, for he was a specialist, and those gentlemen have generally something more in view than the interests of science.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. ix. 93 The recital might edify a specialist who was anxious to register the Protean indications of scurvy.

1875 B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 11 Has been treated by an eminent specialist, with both arsenic and mercury.

1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 162 He was a famous nerve specialist when he retired from practice.

1919 D. Cooper Diary 19 July (2005) 107 At last Doctor Pritchard whom I was consulting took me to a skin specialist who diagnosed it as tinia.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 29 July 257/2 A cancer specialist..serves as a consultant to the local doctors.

2007 S. Perkins & J. Meyers-Thompson Infertility for Dummies vii. 110 You may decide that it's time to see a specialist.

1900 S. A. Nelson ABC of Wall St. xxxv. 159 Specialists. Brokers who deal in one or two stocks only.

1907 S. A. Nelson Consolidated Stock Exchange N.Y. xiii. 69 The successful specialist if trading in an active stock must be a robust man, have a strong voice, be quick-witted, and always willing to trade.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Mar. 15/8 New York Stock Exchange ‘specialists’ today objected emphatically to provisions of the pending securities market control bill which would require them to abandon the practice of trading on their own account.

1963 B. E. Shultz Securities Market (ed. 2) xvi. 302 A ‘floor give-up’ in which specialists and two-dollar brokers give up the names of the firms for which they are acting.

1988 Times 12 Feb. 24/5 The specialist in New York assumes an obligation to act to prevent volatile price movements in the shares for which he has the sole obligation to make a market.

2003 U.S. News & World Rep. 9 June 27/3 Each of the 443 specialists is supposed to hold an auction for every sale.

1918 New Jersey Municipalities Oct. 309/1 He alluded to an address of Lenine's, in which the necessity for expertness in a democratic government—even to the extent of using ‘bourgeois specialists’, if necessary—is set forth.

1929 tr. ‘V. M. Molotov’ Communist Party Soviet Union 39 Of course there cannot be many among the ranks of the old specialists who could be taken into the Party... The Shakhtny case revealed clearly enough that we have some of the most bitter enemies among the specialists, whose skill we must nevertheless use.

1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. ix. 334 The Case of Glavtop—May, 1921. This case was important because it involved engineers—or, as they had been christened in the terminology of the times, ‘specialists’, or spetsy.

1977 ‘S. Leys’ Chinese Shadows (1978) ii. 101 It [sc. the Tower of the Six Harmonies] is such a sturdy building that an army of ‘specialists’ would have been necessary to demolish it.

1997 Theory & Society 26 44 According to the 1989 census, the specialists as a sociological group constituted about 28 percent of the employed Russian population.

1955 Army-Navy-Air Force Reg. 14 May 1/1 Army personnel in the top four enlisted grades will be separated into two groups, non-commissioned officers and specialists... Those who perform non-leadership duties of a technical or administrative nature will be designated ‘Specialists’..and will rank among themselves as Master Specialists (E-7), Specialist First Class (E-6), Specialist Second Class (E-5), and Specialist (E-4).

1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam iii. 67 I got on particularly well with the new crew chief, Specialist Fifth Class Jaycelon.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 406/2 Specialist, military, any of four enlisted ranks in the U.S. Army corresponding to the grades of corporal (Specialist 4) through sergeant first class (Specialist 7).

2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Feb. 64/2 He and Specialist Michael Jackson had crawled up the hill twice trying to retake it.