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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cognizant
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm cognizant of the fact that your client has tried to pay the debt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so, um, he was very cognizant of what he was doing and why he did it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cognizant

Cognizant \Cog"ni*zant\ (? or ?), a. [See Cognizance, and cf. Connusant.] Having cognizance or knowledge. (of).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cognizant

1820, back-formation from cognizance.

Wiktionary
cognizant

a. aware; fully informed; having understanding

WordNet
cognizant

adj. (usually followed by `of') having knowledge or understanding; "our youth are cognizant of the law"; "I am well aware of his limitations" [syn: cognisant, well aware(p), aware(p)] [ant: incognizant]

Wikipedia
Cognizant

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp is an American multinational corporation that provides custom information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. It is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Cognizant is listed in the NASDAQ-100 and the S&P 500 indices. Originally founded as an in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet in 1994, Cognizant started serving external clients in 1996.

It made an IPO in 1998, after a series of corporate splits and restructures of its parent companies. It was the first software services firm listed on the NASDAQ. During the dot com bust, it grew by accepting the application maintenance work that the bigger players were unwilling to perform. Gradually, it ventured into application development, complex systems integration and consulting work. Cognizant saw a period of fast growth during the 2000s, becoming a Fortune 500 company in 2011. In 2015, the Fortune magazine named it as the world's fourth most admired IT services company.

Usage examples of "cognizant".

As they spoke the hot words -- Ha-man rual tayba-sah carab ho-eeal -- the ground seemed to grow hot and cognizant under their feet, as if the Earthpower were drawing near the surface to hear them.

It was the job of those in Class Two to plot the pitfalls for him in advance, and they had been cognizant of the hopper problem for some time now.

Hurley considered that the reports of Service, Ludden and others urging a realistic policy more independent of the Kuomintang and more cognizant of the Communists were undermining his efforts.

He claims on that occasion to have laid a trap for the accused and to have informed two men of undoubted Christian conversation of his purpose, and he claims that on the next day the same witnesses at the toun of Chasehope were cognizant of the success of his trap.

On that Day thou wouldst regard thyself as the inmate of Paradise and as a true believer in Him, whereas in reality thou wouldst suffer thyself to be wrapt in veils and thy habitation would be the nethermost fire, though thou thyself wouldst not be cognizant thereof.

Because the Sunni caliphs were cognizant of this hope, the Imams generally were persecuted during the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties.

I no sooner looked into this more ample statement than I detected the work of an impostor, and as, in the preparation of my work on Early Voyages to Terra Australis, my memory had become charged with all the details of the subject, I was able to trace not only the documents which, as he was not a discoverer in reality, supplied him with the materials for being a discoverer on paper, but also blunders in those documents of which I was cognizant, but he had not been, and which, as he had been himself deceived, clearly betrayed the utter falsity of his statements.

The alluring lady with the gaze of a Bengalese tiger was quite cognizant that she was under observation by the handsome, self-contained young man who stood opposite.

Raid had been made, there was manifestly some understanding between President Johnson and the Fenian leaders, as the American authorities were perfectly cognizant of what was intended long before Gen.

Island does not resemble the other islands of the Pacific, and a fact of which Captain Nemo has made me cognizant must sooner or later bring about the subversion of its foundation.

When a whirling magnetar blew off overwhelming quantities of gamma rays, was the direction and moment of eruption a consequence of cognizant confutation?

The army of Vlad Baptiste boasted twenty marma chargers, plus the same number of horsemen, and five scouts riding the cognizant female lizards although the scouts stayed out of the bulk of the fighting.

The new seers, being pragmatically oriented, became immediately cognizant of the compelling power of the emanations.

When he spoke, he pointed out that the flaw of anthropologists in general is that they never allow themselves sufficient time to become fully cognizant of all the nuances of the particular cognitive system used by the people they are studying.

While no anticipator of miracles and fully cognizant of the special problems establishing for­mal alliance with the locals entailed, he still felt that the pace of progress was too slow.