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- adjective Alternative spelling of
unspecialized .
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- adjective not specialized or modified for a particular purpose or function
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Examples
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‘Flet,’ in short, is our modern ‘flat’ in an unspecialised and uncorrupted form.
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick
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The unspecialised common soldier, the infantryman who has stood and marched and moved in ranks and ranks, the "serried lines of men," who are the main substance of every battle story for the last three thousand years, are as obsolete as the dodo.
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With machinery skill disappears and unspecialised intelligence comes in.
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Industries engaged in producing valuable, durable material objects in wide demand are locally specialised; those engaged in providing bulky perishable non-material goods, or goods in narrow demand, are unspecialised.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899
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It is wonderful how Judith, with her quite unspecialised knowledge of history can now and then put her finger upon something vital.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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The architect, save in _The Master Builder_, is almost unknown; the engineer, unspecialised as a rule, figures vaguely sometimes.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896
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However, in the relatively small and unspecialised New Zealand economy, one person or one firm may play many parts.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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What the mass wants is just unspecialised knowledge -- the kind of knowledge that enables men to get comfortably and creditably and profitably through life, to meet emergencies as they rise, to know their way through the world, to use their faculties in all circumstances to the best advantage.
Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873
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But this being so, it is hard to see how we can deny that the lower animals possess the germs of a highly rude and unspecialised, but still true language, unless we also deny that they have any ideas at all; and this I gather is what Professor
Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868
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As an alternative scientists can use a method of taking normal cells from adults and reversing them to an unspecialised state, known as induced pluripotent stem cells iPS, making them almost indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Collins 2011
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