specialized knowledge

collocation in English

meaningsofspecializedandknowledge

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specialized
adjective
uk
/ˈspeʃ.əl.aɪzd/us
/ˈspeʃ.ə.laɪzd/
working in and knowing a lot about one particular subject, skill, service, ...
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knowledge
noun
uk
/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofspecializedandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspecialized knowledge

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Readers who lackspecializedknowledgeof individual cases occasionally may have difficulty interpreting the conclusions authors reach.
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Even withspecializedknowledgeof psychopharmacology, it was hard to achieve the optimal dose, which was defined based on physically healthy subjects.
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On the other, they cultivated highlyspecializedknowledgethat required extensive experience and skill, and this could only be appreciated by other specialists.
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In this case, the production of metal artifacts could not have existed without both materials andspecializedknowledgeobtained from distant cultures.
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Are we sure it is a rise in the status ofspecializedknowledgethat is the definitive source of the new counterauthority?
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Power is manifested as people anticipate each other's use of resources, in particularspecializedknowledge.
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But to answer those questions, we need a conceptual strategy for bringingspecializedknowledgetogether and for envisioning the field as a whole.
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Documents often requirespecializedknowledgeabout particular document formats.
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This is to be expected-building an application that supports even one of these aspects well requires a great deal ofspecializedknowledgeand experience.
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Company law and environmental directives, tax provisions, the regulation of professions, the directives on credit and insurance and laws on consumer protection are generally complex and requirespecializedknowledge.
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Thisspecializedknowledgeis beyond the ken of most patients so that they must rely on others to fill in the gap (often in a simplified version).
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Each country study begins with a historical background that will be of great help to readers who have an interest in the topic but lackspecializedknowledgeof the region.
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In other words, perhaps the tension betweenspecializedknowledgeand public standing is itself only one specialized version of a more general paradox.
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A judgment that responding is too dangerous in a particular circumstance has to be left to the consensus of medical experts with the relevantspecializedknowledgeand experience.
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This means that specialized texts generally leave conjunctive and disjunctive, causal and temporal relations implicit, so that the reader has to draw onspecializedknowledgeto see them.
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Four eyes see more than two, and experts can bring theirspecializedknowledgeand professional experience to a task.
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This person will havespecializedknowledgeof linguistics, education, or some other related field, and will have advanced academic training as a teacher.
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A 'real' teacher, he says, is 'a professional teacher' who has 'specializedknowledgeof linguistics, education, or some other related field' and 'advanced academic training as a teacher'.
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Those who contend that thespecializedknowledgethat constitutes "real" medicine has become progressively more technical and more distant from everyday experience generate a lot of passion.
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