special

1. A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered; the thing thus sold. · We're running a special on turkey for Thanksgiving.· I didn't have much money, so I bought the special.
2. A meal offered only at a certain time by a restaurant, not as a standing fixture of the menu; often, one of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price; also often a dish at a nondiscounted price that is seasonal or otherwise exciting or unusual. · Today's dinner special is wild salmon, which we don't normally get a chance to offer.· The Tuesday lunch special is our tuna melt on rye.
3. Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
4. Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled. · Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin.
5. Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
6. An award, typically a free game, that is made available to the player upon reaching or completing a major objective in a pinball game.
7. A journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
8. A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.

Plural specials