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Finesse

/fɨ-/

Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.

📖 Definitions of "Finesse"

noun
  1. 1

    Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.

  2. 2

    The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.

  3. 3

    An adroit manoeuvre.

  4. 4

    In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.

verb
  1. 1

    To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.

  2. 2

    To play (a card) as a finesse.

  3. 3

    To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.

  4. 4

    To attempt to win a trick by finessing.

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