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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
astute
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shrewd/astute businessman (=able to understand situations in business and make good decisions)
▪ Are you a shrewd businessman, quick to see how to make a profit?
astute/shrewd (=one who is good at getting what he wants done)
▪ He proved to be an astute politician.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ He's probably the most astute politician in the Middle East, and we knew we could do business with him.
▪ But Dole had little choice but to roll the dice in a way that surprised even the most astute political observers.
▪ It was great fun, Jack Benny being one of the most astute performers anyone could meet.
▪ The market in 1994 was at best indifferent, rewarding only the most astute stock pickers.
▪ The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen.
▪ It was probably the most astute financial accomplishment of the Herrera administration.
▪ Not even the most astute planning can cover the infinite variables thrown up by a sport of such bewildering complexity.
politically
▪ Mrs Thatcher may feel it would be politically astute to take a lead in getting a convention under way.
▪ Caving into Jorge Mas Canosa was politically astute.
▪ Ever since, the Nez Perce have been one of the most politically astute tribes, successfully holding on to their cultural identity.
▪ Nevertheless, much discretion remains for departments to increase their power, and politically astute department heads become skillful at doing so.
▪ To stand up in Congress and speak against homeownership would have been as politically astute as to campaign against motherhood.
very
▪ She always had an eye for a bargain and was very astute in her shopping.
▪ But this elite group was very astute.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ astute management
▪ an astute judge of talent
▪ Morgan was surprised at how astute she was. "How did you know that?" he asked.
▪ The President's wife is often politically astute, ambitious and very influential in White House policy decisions.
▪ The scale of the riots seemed to surprise even the most astute commentators.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An astute businessman and virtual workaholic, he has his finger in more proverbial puddings than Little Jack Horner.
▪ And even the more astute types, such as Safire, may have their gumshoes pointed up the wrong alleys.
▪ Barley is much too astute to state this baldly, but it informs his every strategy as author.
▪ Each of our senses is a remarkably astute censor.
▪ It always annoys me so much the way you girls trot it out like you're saying something so astute and revealing.
▪ They would think me, if not a genius, then at least astute.
▪ Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place.
▪ Will they have an astute sense of time, space, design, proportion, ratio, and the like?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Astute

Astute \As*tute"\, a. [L. astutus, fr. astus craft, cunning; perh. cognate with E. acute.] Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

Syn: Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. [1913 Webster] As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
astute

1610s, from Latin astutus "crafty, wary, shrewd; sagacious, expert," from astus "cunning, cleverness, adroitness," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Greek asty "town," a word borrowed into Latin and with an overtone of "city sophistication" (compare asteism). Related: Astutely; astuteness.

Wiktionary
astute

a. 1 quick and critically discerning 2 shrewd or crafty

WordNet
astute

adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" [syn: sharp, shrewd]

Wikipedia
Astute

Astute may refer to:

  • , launched 1945, Amphion-class submarine, scrapped 1970

  • , launched 2007, nuclear-powered attack submarine

    • , a class of which HMS Astute (S119) is the lead ship

  • , US Navy minesweeper

  • Operation Astute, an Australian military operation in response to the 2006 East Timor crisis

Usage examples of "astute".

Madam Bulldog passed around the town, visiting such businesses as she would need to deal with, leaving each place with the owners full of admiration for her astute business sense.

He must set aside all consideration of what had really happened to him until he had convinced this astute and suspicious officer.

Yes--the very same teasing, now moody, now reckless, always astute Johnny Dromore, with a good heart beneath an outside that seemed ashamed of it.

Even Johnny Dromore--most reticent of creatures--had confided to him that one hour of his astute existence, when the wind had swept him out to sea!

Amidst this labyrinthine organization and all the multitude of offices and agencies of the Ministry of Economics and the Four-Year Plan and the Niagara of thousands of special decrees and laws even the most astute businessman was often lost, and special lawyers had to be employed to enable a firm to function.

Chamberlain and for Britain, and Hitler was so warned the very next day by the astute German ambassador in London.

This interpretation was obvious, but there was another which was not so clear but which the astute German ambassador in Moscow promptly pointed out to Berlin.

More astute brains than the wild valleys of the North produce conducted the preparations.

It was an astute way of escape from the awkward situation into which his attachment to the interests of the dowager of Condillac was likely to place him.

Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.

It presented, as the astute reader will have already perceived, few difficulties in its solution, for a very limited choice of alternatives must get to the root of the matter.

He made a bad slip when he allowed my astute friend to notice the number of the seat taken for his wife.

The breeders were most astute in maintaining their monopoly of the fabulous and fabulously expensive animals, for they sold but few and then only geldings.

An astute observer might have found something wooden in her manner, and might occasionally surprise a curious anguish in her expression.

By astute and systematic observation, supplemented by occasional bribery, the team would compile a financial and operating study, probing weaknesses and estimating potential, untapped strengths.