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Intelligence   /ɪntˈɛlədʒəns/   Listen
Intelligence

noun
1.
The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience.
2.
A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy.  Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service.
3.
Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy).  Synonym: intelligence information.
4.
Information about recent and important events.  Synonyms: news, tidings, word.
5.
The operation of gathering information about an enemy.  Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation.



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"Intelligence" Quotes from Famous Books



... of both—her power and his homage—and enjoyed them with, I dare say, complete innocence. We have no ground in expediency or morals to quarrel with her on that account. Charm in woman and exceptional intelligence in man are a law unto themselves. ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad

... that I've got anything against you." She addressed it as if there were an intelligence back of the vacuous pleasantness of the young face. "It's only that there's not any you and hasn't been for I don't know how long. It's so much deader than death, all ashes to ashes and dust to dust and the spirit turned into something different." ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... this clerk was unkind, but if he spoke in that brutal way, it was through want of judgment, and from lack of intelligence in the little ...
— An Iceland Fisherman • Pierre Loti

... women he had met of late had attracted him, in different ways. It was hard to believe that any of them possessed unlovable qualities, though there was not one among them to compare with Evelyn. Whatever he liked most in the others—intelligence, beauty, tenderness, courage—reminded him of her. Kitty, he thought, belonged to the hearth; she personified gentleness and solace; it would be her part to diffuse cheerful comfort in the home. Jessy would make an ambitious man's ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... banks that are claimed to be well managed, have no appreciable effect on the system. It is the system that knows no uniformity or security, and never can have, as now organized. That a system so perilous and explosive, should have even partially succeeded is proof only of the intelligence and integrity, generally, of the bank officers and directors, but no recommendation ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various


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