Specialist may refer to:
Occupations
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Specialist (rank)
Specialist is a military rank in some countries’ armed forces. Two branches of the United States Armed Forces use the rank. It is one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the United States Army, above private (PVT), private (PV2), and private ...
, a military rank
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Specialist (Singapore)
In the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), specialists are the group of ranks equivalent to non-commissioned officers in other armed forces. This term was introduced in 1993, for a more "positive" rank classification and shorter waiting time for WOSPE ...
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Specialist (arena football)
In arena football, a specialist was a player, other than a quarterback or placekicker, who was exempt from the league's one-platoon system ("Iron Man"). Under the original Arena football system, six of the eight players on each team were required t ...
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Specialist degree
The specialist degree is an academic degree conferred by a college or university. The degree is formatted differently worldwide and may be either a five-year program or a doctoral level graduate program that occurs after a master's degree but befo ...
, in academia
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Specialty (medicine)
A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children ( paediatrics), cancer (oncology), ...
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market maker
A market maker or liquidity provider is a company or an individual that quotes both a buy and a sell price in a tradable asset held in inventory, hoping to make a profit on the '' bid–ask spread'', or ''turn.'' The benefit to the firm is that ...
, in the American stock market
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Payload specialist, a Space Shuttle crew member with duties associated with a flight's payload
Arts and entertainment
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"Specialist" (short story), a 1953 science fiction story by Robert Sheckley
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''Specialist'' (TV series), a 2016 Japanese drama
* "Specialist", a song by Interpol from ''
Turn On the Bright Lights
''Turn On the Bright Lights'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Interpol. It was released in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2002, and in the United States the following day, through independent record label Matador Records. The ...
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''The Specialist'' (1975 film), an American thriller film
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The Specialist
''The Specialist'' is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, and Rod Steiger. It is loosely based on "The Specialist" series of novels by John Shirley ...
'', a 1994 American action film
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''The Specialist'' (comics) (''Lo Sconosciuto''), an Italian comic
* ''The Specialist'', a book by
Charles "Chic" Sale
Charles Partlow "Chic" Sale (August 25, 1885 – November 7, 1936) was an American actor and vaudevillian.
Early years
Sale was born in Huron, South Dakota, and raised in Urbana, Illinois. He was a son of Frank and Lillie Belle (née Part ...
Other uses
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Specialist (computer)
The Specialist (russian: Специалист) is a DIY computer designed in Soviet Union. Its description was published in ''Modelist-Konstructor'' (russian: Моделист-Конструктор), a magazine for scale model builders in 1987. I ...
, a Soviet DIY computer design
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Specialist species
A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet). A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of env ...
, a species that thrives best in a particular habitat, or has a limited diet
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Specialists' Shopping Centre
The Specialists' Shopping Centre was the oldest shopping centre on Orchard Road, a shopping area of Singapore. The largest tenant of the shopping centre were Hotel Phoenix Singapore and John Little. The Visitor's Guide of Singapore described th ...
, Singapore
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Specialist status
Specialist schools in the United Kingdom (sometimes branded as specialist colleges in England and Northern Ireland) are schools with an emphasis or focus in a specific specialised subject area, which is called a specialism, or alternatively in t ...
, a status given to schools in the United Kingdom
See also
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The Specialists (disambiguation)
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Specialization (disambiguation)
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