generalist

[ jen-er-uh-list ]

/ ˈdʒɛn ər ə lɪst /

a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).

Origin of generalist

First recorded in 1605–15; general + -ist

Finally if there is anything left over we can explore the possibility of outsourcing the task to a specialist or generalist.

How To Create Your Own User Manual |Ari Meisel |February 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
You could be a generalist—a poet/mollusk scientist/seafarer/surgeon.

A.J. Jacobs: How I Write |Noah Charney |May 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Woe to the specialist who is not a pretty fair generalist, and woe to the generalist who is not also a bit of a specialist.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler |Samuel Butler
He can do more for you and knows more of your case in five minutes' observation than the generalist would in three months.

Dollars and Sense |Col. Wm. C. Hunter

What we have said about the specialist we could repeat by taking the opposite of the question for the generalist.

Dollars and Sense |Col. Wm. C. Hunter
When this nation of ours was born nearly every one was a generalist.

Dollars and Sense |Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Pleasure and recreation are the only things in which an individual should be a generalist.

Dollars and Sense |Col. Wm. C. Hunter

generalist

/ (ˈdʒɛnərəlɪst, ˈdʒɛnrə-) /

ecology an organism able to utilize many food sources and therefore able to flourish in many habitats Compare specialist (def. 3)

generalist

[ jĕn′ər-ə-lĭst ]

A physician whose practice is not oriented in a specific medical specialty but instead covers a variety of medical problems.