specialty

noun

1. (Australia, Canada, US)That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent; bailiwick.

   “Near-synonym: discipline”

   “medical specialty”

   “academic specialty”

   “They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.”

   “The doctor ordered a consultation with another doctor in a different specialty.”

2. (Australia, Canada, US)A product that originates in and is characteristic of a place.

   “regional specialty”

   “house specialty”

3. (Australia, Canada, US, obsolete)Particularity.

   “The specialty of rule hath been neglected: And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.”

4. (Australia, Canada, US)A particular or peculiar case.
5. (Australia, Canada, US)An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
6. (Australia, Canada, US)A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.

   “Let specialties be therefore drawne betweene vs, That couenants may be kept on either hand.”

   “1812, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on Pleading, with a Collection of Practical Precedents, and Notes Thereon, 2nd American edition, edited by Thomas Day, New York, Volume 2, section 456, note c, […] in a plea to an action of debt on specialty, it is still necessary to show that the debt on which the judgment was recovered was a specialty, or to aver that the judgment was recovered before the defendant had notice of the plaintiff’s demand.”