specialist

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Singular
specialist

Plural
specialists

  1. (countable) A specialist is a person who is highly skilled in one type of activity or study.
    His army training had made him a bomb disposal specialist.
  2. (countable) A specialist is a doctor who is skilled in treating one part of the body.
    It hurt so much when she swallowed food that she was sent to a throat specialist.

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