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Meanings of generalist in English

Spanish
generalista

Someone who does not specialise professionally but who has a good basic knowledge of all kinds of subjects.

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Usage of generalist in English
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Isotope signatures for mountain goat and Dall's sheep showed generalist feeding patterns.
Pubmed
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Another colleague and generalist who keeps watch over my work is Steven Soter.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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Be a generalist in pleasure and recreation, but not in business.
Dollars and Sense
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Her Confederation generalist didactic memory identified it immediately: a soldier-caste Tyrathca.
The Reality Dysfunction
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There's a feeling of inevitability around paywalls on generalist news sites.
The Guardian
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When this nation of ours was born nearly every one was a generalist.
Dollars and Sense
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Less is known about the effects of environmental conditions on specialist versus generalist parasites.
Pubmed
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The classifier also provided independent prognostic information that outperformed the subspecialist and generalist diagnosis.
Pubmed
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Be a specialist in business and a generalist in pleasure.
Dollars and Sense
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They all also agreed that the "generalist" is no longer in demand.
Reuters
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In contrast, clinical genetics was not identified as a core component of generalist practice.
Pubmed
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At the opposite end of the career ladder, more generalist skills are also useful.
The Guardian
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Beetle activity added generalist morphs to the mycobiome that overrode the initial host association.
Pubmed
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With groups this size it's hard to be a generalist.
The Guardian
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On the contrary, some contemporaneous generalist lineages like Apodemus show a limited morphological evolution.
Pubmed
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In my view, the generalist nature of our work is what makes it so special.
The Irish Times
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Generalist through the time
Generalist across language varieties
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