smart move

collocation in English

meaningsofsmartandmove

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smart
adjective
uk
/smɑːt/us
/smɑːrt/
mainly UK
having a clean, tidy, and ...
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move
noun
uk
/muːv/us
/muːv/
an act ...
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(Definition ofsmartandmovefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsmart move

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I thought that that was asmartmove.
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From a political public relations point of view, in order to mobilise people, this is of course a tactical andsmartmove.
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Will he try to get more of asmartmoveon?
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It is for that reason that combining economy and ecology here is asmartmove.
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This was certainly asmartmoveon his colleagues behalf.
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To the best of my knowledge, it was not asmartmove—he never got them back.
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That is asmartmovebut the implications are not such as to make the public put any trust in it.
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Thesmartmovewould have been to take the rest of the year off.
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All in all, he visualized the album as asmartmove.
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While he acknowledged the video might be dark and a tad conceptually racy, he claimed it wassmartmove.
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It's asmartmovefor the band that has been forcibly absent from the music scene since disbanding in 2005.
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The reaction is—and this is the danger—that attitudes take asmartmoveto the right and the public are no longer interested in the facts which cause a strike.
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He said, it was asmartmoveon her behalf if it was a ploy to get a bit of 1 on 1 time with him.
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