0 to be familiar with, and have knowledge or experience of the facts or rules of something:
1 familiar with, having experience of, or knowing:
John’s conversant in Mandarin (= can use it in conversation.)
We need to be more conversant with the dynamic exercise of, interaction of, and communicative import of feelings.
The authors begin in what is, at least for those conversant with disability studies, familiar territory.
The text is, however, frequently very dense, and speaks to readers conversant in political economy or economic sociology approaches to value chains.
Most of the authors, unfortunately, do not appear to be all that conversant with writings on globalisation and transnationalism in the last decade or so.
First, architectural history must become more conversant with the analytic techniques of art history.
We found villagers to be conversant with the operational rules concerning forest use.
Here again the account is eminently readable yet clearly conversant with pertinent theoretical issues.
Western researchers and consultants (often not conversant in the local language) may then find such terms being translated back to them.
