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Practical know-how
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savvy
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Savvy is a 2008 children's fantasy novel by Ingrid Law aimed at children aged nine to twelve years. The American Library Association named Savvy a 2009 Newbery Honor Book.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ political savvy EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His performance with the relatives was a remarkable display of political savvy . ▪ To be sure, the film offers up some contemporary savvy . II. adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context informal English) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive. interj. (context informal English) Do you understand? n. shrewdness v (context informal English) to understand
Usage examples of savvy.
He had already shown political savvy by helping his father restructure the tax code, earning the respect of all three fractious regions: fishing coast, farming heartland, and wild mountains.
To them, Robertson was just another Southern-ftled Elmer Gantry bigot with a slick line of LordyJesus hoodoo who could hypnotize a couple of million American goobers into turning over their bank accounts to the savvy Scots.
The meeter and greeter, and the most savvy about show horses and jumpers, was Rita Scully herself.
Bobby fit the profile that Scott envisioned as an ideal accomplice, savvy, agile, and smart.
A politically savvy cynic could wonder if a more restrictive regime was gaining a foothold on Earth, taking advantage of the Restorationist scandal.
Highton discourse, Kaliga had deliberately given a direct answer, a great insult among Aristos, but he assumed Jai had neither the savvy nor intelligence to know.
When I first arrived, the proverbial babe-in-the-woods, there were plenty of savvy forest denizens happy to offer guidance in exchange for a share of my earnings.
Family and had a long lifetime rich in story and experience, the kind of gut savvy that meant more in dealing with Marauder mechs than anything else.
We need to buckle down to the realization that as long as our pests are going to keep bothering us, we may as well get into the spirit of the battle and hunt them down with savvy, persistence and impunity.
My kind savvies any halfway sensible-acting cuss with a permanent address and irrigated croplands marked by boundaries anyone of goodwill can agree on.
To them, Robertson was just another Southern-ftled Elmer Gantry bigot with a slick line of LordyJesus hoodoo who could hypnotize a couple of million American goobers into turning over their bank accounts to the savvy Scots.
It may turn out to be convergence at its best, as librarians become computer savvy - and computer types create knowledge and disseminate it.
The less computer savvy users - unable to find free alternatives - are more willing to pay.
Yamazaki, struck by the queer American poetry, had been on the verge of asking after Chainsaw Savvy.
Ormer Bell writing screenplays with Jonquil Adams and Austin Carl, chatting with Hampton Drane on the phone, a regular rising star, and it could have been her, but she wasn't savvy enough, she wasn't something enough.