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Generalist Definition & Meaning

generalist
noun
  1. 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"

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What does generalist mean?
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"
What part of speech is generalist?
Generalist is a noun.

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