acumen

How To Use acumen In A Sentence

• The blogosphere, meanwhile, is beginning to show signs of commercial acumen: "Lots of bloggers, over time, make a good living – perhaps a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year from advertising. Author Don Tapscott on the growing influence of public participation
• Pay packets are therefore largely determined by the skills and acumen of other financiers. Times, Sunday Times
• In the meantime, managing without a steady income is providing a stern test of her financial acumen. Times, Sunday Times
• Their acumen was revealed in experiments on 33 hand-reared parrots from four species. The Sun
• She has considerable business/financial acumen.
• Personally, I must confess to a sneaking admiration for his acumen, if not for his artistic integrity, but I would not attempt to justify his methods.
• His tactical acumen has been rightly criticised, but in the end it seems even his motivational powers were dimmed when he lost his spark for the job.
• From as far back as he could remember, he'd had his own sense of business acumen.
• It takes business acumen, marketing savvy, graphic-arts talent, and a clear understanding of what the customer sees from the other side of the screen.
• She has considerable business acumen.