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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
generalist
noun
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▪ It also requires presentation in a manner acceptable to both generalist and specialist managers.
▪ Once the managers began to see that they were running a business, they realized that their role was to be generalists.
▪ Others are generalists, providing information on many destinations and methods of traveling.
▪ The conflict within public bureaucracies between specialists and generalists is familiar to all students of modern government.
▪ This raises the question of the role of the specialist agency in relation to the generalist and the development of a referral system.
▪ Workplace 2000 companies will be looking for flexible generalists, not specialists.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
generalist

1610s, from general (adj.) + -ist.

Wiktionary
generalist

n. 1 A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields. 2 (context medicine English) A general practitioner. 3 (context ecology English) Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions.

WordNet
generalist

n. a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist" [syn: Renaissance man] [ant: specialist]

Wikipedia
Generalist

Generalist may refer to:

  • a person with a wide array of knowledge, the opposite of which is a specialist.
  • a physician who is focused on primary care and is not a specialist in a certain medical field
  • Generalist and specialist species, a species which can survive in multiple habitats or eats food from multiple sources
  • a broadcasting format

Usage examples of "generalist".

Why try to make room for another specialist when a generalist like Simna could do multiple duty?

When the younger man remained silent, the generalist reluctantly explained.

More skittish and aggressive than the pigs, these animals were descended from another generalist survivor of human farmyards, the goats.

This ferocious killer was actually descended from finches, another widespread generalist survivor of the human catastrophe.

Church give you a generalist didactic memory of Lalonde before you left?

Syrinx settled back in her deeply cushioned seat in the cabin along with Ruben, Tula, and the newest member of the crew, Senna, a crew toroid generalist who had replaced Chi.

The Lalonde generalist didactic memory called it a kroclion, a plains-dwelling carnivore which even the sayce ran from.

Her Confederation generalist didactic memory identified it immediately: a soldier-caste Tyrathca.

Word had it that the behir keeper in this city was a talented generalist wizard who specialized in the breeding of magical creatures.

Ruben, Tula, and the newest member of the crew, Serina, a crew toroid generalist who had replaced Chi.

It was another one of those specialized things that a generalist like me never got involved in.

And the very lack of specialization had turned him into something of more value: a generalist, a man with the ability to see the forest from a very dense thicket of trees.

Most seemed to be generalists, judging from their full-page ads, which trumpeted crowns, dentures, fillings, periodontal work, bridges, root canals, cosmetic dentistry, and oral surgery.

Master Traders are described as cool-headed, analytical, persuasive generalists who are filled with the passion to deal.

A generalist, a Renaissance man, an expert on the subject of expertise itself, Bowser flitted from subject to subject, from hobby to hobby, mastering each one quickly and then dumping it for other pursuits.