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Meaning of shrewd

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  shrewd
      adj 1: 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: {astute}, {sharp}, {shrewd}]
      2: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the
         community" [syn: {calculating}, {calculative}, {conniving},
         {scheming}, {shrewd}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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