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Synonyms for shrewd

having or showing a clever awareness and resourcefulness in practical matters

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Synonyms for shrewd

marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

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BY NEWSBOY SHREWD (nap) looks a smart investment in the Betfred Cesarewitch (3.40, ITV) at Newmarket this afternoon.
He's off to the Melbourne Cup next month, but stablemate Shrewd looks a terrific each-way player at 16/1.
"He'll have a good pre-season, and a full season next year to work with his team, and he'll be shrewd in the transfer market."
He was certainly shrewd to have wangled himself a PS145,000-plus salary and peppercornrented Essex housing association gin palace.
"The BJP is acting shrewd and BJP is still on its evil politics.
RIPON: 2.00 Boy Ranger, 2.35 Signore Piccolo, 3.10 No Dominion, 3.45 Shrewd, 4.20 Arc Light, 4.55 Fossgate, 5.25 Cracking Choice.
That is looking a shrewd move (as shrewd as it was a strange one by Essex to let him go) as the 26-year-old has started this season very strongly.
Cahill, 30, admits the Merseysiders cannot compete in the transfer market but insists boss David Moyes has built an excellent squad full of homegrown kids and shrewd buys.
Contrary to your statement that I "believe Ford sold Jag and Land Rover to Tata as a shrewd business move", I actually said that Tata buying Jag and Land Rover was a shrewd business move.
Was British mogul Richard Branson's pledge to donate $3 billion over the next decade to promote alternative energies and fight global warming a pure gift to the world, or was it perhaps more of a shrewd investment?
Artists were themselves caught between two worlds and da Vinci is portrayed as having both a creative mind and a shrewd sense of survival.
Written by Rae McGregor of Auckland, it is titled Shrewd Sanctity: The story of Kathleen Hall 1896-1970.
In today's competitive commercial real estate market, locking into a lease at a well-regarded address like 902 Broadway is a shrewd business decision," Fishman said.