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English
Etymology
From sub- + specialize.
Verb
subspecialize (third-person singular simple present subspecializes, present participle subspecializing, simple past and past participle subspecialized)
- To specialize within a particular area of a specialty.
2009 July 12, Amanda Petrusich, “They’ve Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues”, in New York Times:Although most collectors subspecialize by genre, whether jazz or classical or country, it’s early American rural blues — loose acoustic laments, recorded before 1935 and performed by artists who were born in or near the Mississippi Delta — that inspires the highest prices and the most fevered pursuits.
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