"overspecialize" meaning in All languages combined

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + specialize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overspecializes",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "overspecializing",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "overspecialized",
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      "form": "overspecialized",
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    }
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  "hyphenation": [
    "o‧ver‧spe‧cial‧ize"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, E. H. Anderson, “Niagara County: An Account of Its Agriculture and of Its Farm Bureau”, in Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and of the Agricultural Experiment Station, volume II, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, published 1916, page 2093",
          "text": "The tendency to overspecialize is also noticeable in the county. Some farmers are growing fruit to the exclusion of all other crops; some carry the practice a step further and grow only peaches.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 December, Robert Constant, “Overspecialization”, in The Michigan Technic, volume LXXII, number 3, Ann Arbor, Mich.: College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52, column 1",
          "text": "The greatest of benefits to be derived from a purposeful college education are an active and lasting intellectual curiosity—a pervading spirit of inquiry—and the ability to think. To attain these goals the student should direct his education in a broad field of study rather than overspecialize in a single subject.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 February 24, Louis Jacobson, “It's the play and the song that count”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly",
          "text": "Still, Winn is a savvy observer of intellectual politics, ably dissecting the economic and administrative incentives that encourage academics to overspecialize.",
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        "To specialize to an excessive degree."
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          "specialize",
          "specialize"
        ]
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            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "overspecialise"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌoʊvɚˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "overspecialize"
}

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      },
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  "etymology_text": "over- + specialize",
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    {
      "form": "overspecializes",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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    {
      "form": "overspecialized",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overspecialized",
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      ]
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  ],
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  ],
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    "o‧ver‧spe‧cial‧ize"
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1915, E. H. Anderson, “Niagara County: An Account of Its Agriculture and of Its Farm Bureau”, in Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and of the Agricultural Experiment Station, volume II, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, published 1916, page 2093",
          "text": "The tendency to overspecialize is also noticeable in the county. Some farmers are growing fruit to the exclusion of all other crops; some carry the practice a step further and grow only peaches.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 December, Robert Constant, “Overspecialization”, in The Michigan Technic, volume LXXII, number 3, Ann Arbor, Mich.: College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52, column 1",
          "text": "The greatest of benefits to be derived from a purposeful college education are an active and lasting intellectual curiosity—a pervading spirit of inquiry—and the ability to think. To attain these goals the student should direct his education in a broad field of study rather than overspecialize in a single subject.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 February 24, Louis Jacobson, “It's the play and the song that count”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly",
          "text": "Still, Winn is a savvy observer of intellectual politics, ably dissecting the economic and administrative incentives that encourage academics to overspecialize.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To specialize to an excessive degree."
      ],
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        ]
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      ]
    },
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}