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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
numerate
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We need someone who's numerate for this job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He is not even convinced that the head of a financial institution needs to be all that numerate.
▪ Managers use numbers to make decisions and therefore need to be numerate.
▪ Third World governments build roads which help farmers to market their produce and schools which create a literate and numerate workforce.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Numerate

Numerate \Nu"mer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Numerating.] [L. numeratus, p. p. of numerare to count. See Number, v.] (Arith.) To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
numerate

1721, "to count," from Latin numeratus "counted out," past participle of numerare "to count, to number," from numerus "a number" (see number). Related: Numerated; numerating.

Wiktionary
numerate

  1. Having the ability to understand numbers and perform arithmetic. v

  2. (context transitive English) to count

WordNet
numerate

  1. adj. able to understand and use numbers [ant: innumerate]

  2. v. determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: count, number, enumerate]

  3. read out loud as words written numbers

Usage examples of "numerate".

I was put in that class in order to correct what was considered a stigma and an obstacle to the process of Americanization, which the elementary-school teachers of that era were as much expected to further as they were to make us literate and numerate.

Going right back to the invention of the box score in 1845, and its subsequent improvement in 1859 by a British-born journalist named Henry Chadwick, there had been numerate analysts who saw that baseball, more than other sports, gave you meaningful things to count, and that by counting them you could determine the value of the people who played the game.

Mark was circling the Cadillac uncertainly, utterly engrossed with the pamphlet, muttering aloud as he tried to master the operating instructions and identify the various component parts of the vehicle from the line-drawing and numerated list, when there was a tap on his arm.