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generalist

ge·ne·ra·list

US/ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.lɪst/ fairly common

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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Origin

From general + -ist.

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