English > shrewdness: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings). |
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| Synonyms | astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness |
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| Category | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business | The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects |
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| Narrower | craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness | shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception |
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| insightfulness, acumen | shrewdness shown by keen insight |
| knowingness | shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge |
| street smarts | A shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment |
| Broader | intelligence | The ability to comprehend |
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| Catalan | astúcia |
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| Adjectives | shrewd | used of persons |
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| shrewd | marked by practical hardheaded intelligence |