intelligent person

collocation in English

meaningsofintelligentandperson

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intelligent
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈtel.ɪ.dʒənt/us
/ɪnˈtel.ə.dʒənt/
showing intelligence, or able to learn and understand ...
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person
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɜː.sən/us
/ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
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(Definition ofintelligentandpersonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nevertheless, there was some plausibility in saying that we would actually prefer and choose the supposedly smaller gain for the lessintelligentperson.
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There can be scarcely anintelligentpersonin the area who does not regard the proposal as utterly wrong.
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I should have thought that this situation would have driven anyintelligentpersonto an entirely opposite conclusion.
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Could anyintelligentpersonlook at a tariff if it was published without seeing what the principles were?
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It was nonsense to suggest that anyintelligentpersonwould expect an employer to guard against those things which were not in any event foreseeable.
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I am sure that no reasonable orintelligentpersonwould wish to suggest that there should not be co-ordination between these various means of transport.
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They are no such thing, and nointelligentpersonin the 1970s can conceivably believe that they are.
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Nointelligentpersondesires war but everyintelligentpersonwill desire to prepare himself against attack.
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That is not a credible position for anintelligentpersonto take.
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The question of what the pledge was depends upon what language was used, and what meaning it would convey to any ordinarilyintelligentperson.
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Everyintelligentpersonaccepts that there should be a continuing review of all the work of all the boards.
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Nointelligentpersonwould go into that place for more than five or ten minutes.
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Any reasonable,intelligentpersonmust take that into account when assessing the intention of the people with whom one is dealing.
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Is it not obvious that everyintelligentpersonin this country knows that there is a danger of tuberculosis?
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As soon as that was put right, as he was a naturallyintelligentpersonhe learned very quickly.
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Being a veryintelligentpersonhe took note of what was happening, and he made a very interesting report of it afterwards.
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I feel that it would take a veryintelligentpersonto understand this.
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Everyintelligentpersonknows it will only aggravate the situation, not only nationally but internationally.
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I thought there would be a promising career for such anintelligentperson.
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I do not think that anyintelligentpersonwould suggest that we had to keep open plants purely to keep men at work.
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