Synonyms for specialty
ˈspɛʃ əl tispe·cial·ty

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1. forte, strong suit, long suit, metier, specialty, speciality, strong point, strengthnoun

   an asset of special worth or utility

   "cooking is his forte"

   Synonyms:
   long suit, military posture, military strength, fortissimo, force, metier, intensity level, strength, military capability, specialism, potency, medium, distinctiveness, persuasiveness, effectiveness, specialisation, durability, posture, forcefulness, lastingness, specialness, peculiarity, intensity, strong point, strong suit, forte, speciality, enduringness, specialization

2. peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctivenessnoun

   a distinguishing trait

   Synonyms:
   long suit, particularity, distinguishing characteristic, rarity, metier, curio, specialism, disparateness, strong point, distinctiveness, curiosity, specialisation, distinctive feature, oddity, specialness, peculiarity, strong suit, forte, oddment, speciality, strength, specialization

3. specialization, specialisation, specialty, speciality, specialismnoun

   the special line of work you have adopted as your career

   "his specialization is gastroenterology"

   Synonyms:
   specialization, differentiation, long suit, specialness, metier, peculiarity, specialisation, specialism, strong point, speciality, strength, strong suit, distinctiveness, forte

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1. • Asset
   • Career
   • Individuality

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1. specialtynoun

   Synonyms:
   SPECIALITY

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1. specialtynoun

   Synonyms:
   particularity, speciality

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1. List of paraphrases for "specialty":

   specialized, speciality, specialised, specialization, specialist, specializing, specialties, specialising, skilled, specialities, specialisation, dedicated, board-certified, special

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1. Juliette Cubanski:

   Much of the increase is due to introduction of high-cost specialty medications.

2. Brian Tanquilut:

   This is going to be a big issue going forward for some specialty pharmacies and will drive pricing compression.

3. Adam Huttenlocker:

   For a long time, we thought early mammals from the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago) were anatomically similar and not ecologically diverse, this finding by our team and others reinforce that, even before the rise of modern mammals, ancient relatives of mammals were exploring specialty niches: insectivores, herbivores, carnivores, swimmers, gliders.

4. Frank Rodriguez:

   This audience of moviegoers wants to see something different, and there hasn't been much out there for them, this market of specialty crowds and more mature audiences has been underserved.

5. Betsy Brantner-Smith:

   As a police officer for 29 years, I did everything from, dealt with mentally ill people … to negotiating people into letting their hostages go and talking to people out of killing themselves and delivering a baby, and tasering somebody 30 years younger than me through a neighborhood who just committed a burglary, and everything in between, in today's atmosphere, [there is] the expectation that police officers are going to have so much more specialty training, especially when we're talking about mental illness and and utilization of various different kinds of weapons and making sure that we're always exactly within policy and things like that.