Meaning & use
numerate
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Having a good basic understanding of and ability to work with numbers and mathematics.
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Employers increasingly look for candidates who are both literate and numerate.
The course aims to make every graduate numerate enough to interpret basic statistics.
A note on using this word
Numerate was coined by analogy with "literate," first appearing in a 1959 British education report on schooling.
Words with a similar meaning
mathematically literate
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Words with an opposite meaning
innumerate
Another way to use it
2. verb
Formal: to count or enumerate items one by one.
The clerk began to numerate each item in the shipment against the manifest.
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