Usually means: Exhibiting keen insight and judgment.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrewdest: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrewdest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shrewdest: Vocabulary.com
  4. shrewdest: Wordnik
  5. shrewdest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shrewdest: Wiktionary
  7. shrewdest: Dictionary.com
  8. shrewdest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. shrewdest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. shrewdest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrewdest: Legal dictionary

(Note: See shrewd as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shrewd)

adjective:  Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
adjective:  Artful, tricky or cunning.
adjective:  (informal) streetwise, street-smart.
adjective:  Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
adjective:  Nigh accurate.
adjective:  Severe, intense, hard.
adjective:  Sharp, snithy, piercing.
adjective:  (archaic) Bad, evil, threatening.
adjective:  (obsolete) Portending, boding.
adjective:  (archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
adjective:  (obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.
adjective:  (archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
▸ Also see shrewd


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