INTELLIGENCE


Meaning of INTELLIGENCE in English

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Intelligence is the quality of being intelligent or clever.

She’s a woman of exceptional ~.

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2.

Intelligence is the ability to think, reason, and understand instead of doing things automatically or by instinct.

Nerve cells, after all, do not have ~ of their own.

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3.

Intelligence is information that is gathered by the government or the army about their country’s enemies and their activities.

Why was military ~ so lacking?

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