Crossword clues for acumen
acumen
- Sharpness; penetration
- Sharpness of people supporting a copper
- Last word about copper’s penetration
- Blokes backing a copper's judgement
- I agree to receive copper's insight
- American largely ignored by people showing judgement
- Are pool players, perhaps, short of energy and judgement?
- The last word about sources of Cambridge undergrads’ discernment
- Good judgment
- Keen perception
- Mental sharpness
- Sharp insight
- Mental wherewithal
- Keen judgment
- Sage's asset
- Rebel forces' weapon
- Ability to judge well
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acumen \A*cu"men\, n. [L. acumen, fr. acuere to sharpen. Cf.
Acute.]
Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind;
the faculty of nice discrimination.
--Selden.
Syn: Sharpness; sagacity; keenness; shrewdness; acuteness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Latin acumen "a point, sting," hence "mental sharpness, shrewdness," from acuere "to sharpen" (see acuity).
Wiktionary
n. Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
WordNet
n. a tapering point
shrewdness shown by keen insight [syn: insightfulness]
Wikipedia
Acumen (formerly known as Acumen Fund) is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of poverty. Its aim is to help build financially sustainable organizations that deliver affordable goods and services that improve the lives of the poor. Acumen is a 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in New York, with regional offices in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Ghana.
Acumen may refer to:
- Acumen (organization) (formerly known as Acumen Fund), a non-profit global venture fund
- Acumen, a triannual British poetry magazine
- Acumen Nation, an American rock music group originally known as Acumen
Acumen is a triannual literary magazine with special emphasis on poetry and is based in Brixham, the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of "acumen".
I had not thought of that theory it seems to me so plausible, now that you mention it, that I think the officers will show rare acumen if they adopt it.
John had mused a few moments he recommenced as imperturbably and with as much acumen as ever.
A Corporal First might prove to have more combat acumen than a stately aristocrat from one of the old famifies--and such could not be permitted since it undermined the myth of aristocratic invincibility.
Her gaze met his with the penetrating acumen of a woman for whom life had no more surprises, a woman with a wordly competence beyond her years.
With the acumen of the professional, Arta understood that Skyla would eventually act to free herself.
Andrea went off without answering him, laughing at the acumen still left to this cracked wit.
He guessed that Billy, like Barry, was not allowing for his acumen in this new world of skulduggery.
She had run his clubs at one time and she had done it well, had been respected for her acumen and her shrewdness.
All he wanted now was the chance to show everyone in their circle of friends his acumen and his strength of purpose.
Secondly, with some, the authority of great minds, renowned for scientific knowledge and speculative acumen, goes far.
But, despite the learning and acumen displayed in his able and valuable volume, we must think Mr.
No man enters a Martian city without giving a very detailed and satisfactory account of himself, nor did I delude myself with the belief that I could for a moment impose upon the acumen of the officers of the guard to whom I should be taken the moment I applied at any one of the gates.
As it is, knowing that the testator was a gentleman of the highest intelligence and acumen, and that he has absolutely no relations living to whom he could have confided the guardianship of the child, we do not feel justified in taking this course.
For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.
The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more.