specializing
- 1Present participle and gerund of specialize.
The firm is specializing in renewable energy contracts this year.
Specializing too early can limit a young athlete's overall development.
Note
One spelling serves two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it is the participle, carrying the progressive: the firm is specializing. As a gerund it acts as a noun, often a subject: specializing too early limits a player. The -ize spelling is the American and Oxford one. Most uses are intransitive, about focusing on a field; the transitive "narrow in scope" is uncommon, and "go into details" is obsolete.
specializing is a form of specialize
specialize, verb: To concentrate one's study on a particular skill, field, topic, or genre. Full entry
- Forms
- specializespecializes he/she/itspecializing -ing formspecialized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- specialize → specializing: drop the e, add -ing
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