{
    "term": "specialized",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "designed or developed for a particular purpose or area of knowledge",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "specialized equipment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a job calling for highly specialized skills"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our industry is quite specialized."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These tools are very specialized."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This bird is highly specialized for eating fish."
                },
                {
                    "text": "narrowly specialized subjects"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very", "increasingly"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈspeʃəlaɪzd/",
                "audio": "sp/specialized/specialized__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈspeʃəlaɪzd/",
                "audio": "sp/specialized/specialized__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}