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