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smart

 
 
/smɑːt/ adjective

Definition

INTELLIGENT intelligent: Rachel's one of the smartest kids in the class.
TIDY If you look smart or your clothes are smart, you look clean and tidy: a smart, blue suit I need to look a bit smarter for my interview.
FASHIONABLE fashionable and expensive: a smart, new restaurant smart riverside apartments
MACHINE/WEAPON A smart machine, weapon, etc uses computers to make it work: smart bombs
smartly adverb
(Definition of smart adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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