specialty
English
Alternative forms
- speciality (British / Commonwealth spelling)
Etymology
From Old French specialte, especialte, from Latin specialitas.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈspɛʃəlti/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
specialty (plural specialties) (American spelling)
- That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
- They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
- 1858, Charles Kingsley, “My Winter-Garden,” Fraser’s Magazine, Volume 57, p. 410,
- 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.
- (obsolete) Particularity.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene 3,
- The specialty of rule hath been neglected:
- And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand
- Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene 3,
- A particular or peculiar case.
- An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
- (law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
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- c. 1593,, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Scene 1, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, London, 1623, p. 215,
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
that in which one specializes
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particularity — see particularity
particular or peculiar case
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attribute or quality peculiar to a species
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legal: contract or obligation under seal
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