0 having or based on a clear understanding and good judgment of a situation, resulting in an advantage:
[ + to infinitive ] He was shrewd enough not to take the job when there was the possibility of getting a better one a few months later.
She is a shrewd politician who wants to avoid offending the electorate unnecessarily.
It was a shrewd move to buy your house just before property prices started to rise.
1 able to judge a situation accurately and turn it to your own advantage:
He’s a very shrewd businessman.
Barbara made some shrewd investments.
2 able to judge people and situations well and make good decisions:
3 based on good understanding or judgment:
These are shrewd observations, well worth raising for debate.
Long-running historical debates are referred to indirectly through shrewd observation rather than detailed examination.
To today's reader his description is a shrewd translation of symbolic dynamics into everyday language.
The wisest and most shrewd undermine others to raise themselves higher.
But if your man is shrewd, you should proceed more cautiously.
What would the shrewd bachelor uncle want for his nephew or niece in such a situation?
Her reading of the printed secondary sources has been exhaustive, her judgments on them mostly sharp and shrewd, and her citations brilliantly selected.
They too condensed insights into maxims, riddles and gnomic sayings, or epigrams about prudent living and shrewd, insightful public decisions.
