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What does acumen mean?

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Noun
  1. Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
  2. (botany) A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant.
  3. (anatomy) A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium.
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Four seismic forces will soon collide to test the president's true political acumen.
Most of them have the ideas, acumen and determination to expand their activities but are constrained by the lack of finance capital.
Indeed, the Huguenots symbolised the Protestant work ethic and, with their business acumen, became the midwives of British capitalism.
First, you have to have artistic direction that provides inspiration and vision balanced with savvy business acumen.
Yet she is never a Pollyanna, eager to use the amazing accomplishment of her formal acumen to distract us from what she observes.
Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind.

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