Subspecialize

Alternative forms

• subspecialise (UK)

Origin

- + specialize

Full definition of subspecialize

Verb

1. To specialize within a particular area of a specialty.
• 2009, July 12, Amanda Petrusich, They’ve Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues, 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.

Derived terms

• subspecialty, subspeciality
• subspecialist