Look up: Literacy

1. literacy
   [n] - the ability to read and write
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2. Literacy
   The ability to understand and employ printed information in daily activities at home, at work and in the community to achieve one`s goals, and to develop one`s knowledge and potential.
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3. Literacy
   The National Literacy Strategy has two main aims: to improve the teaching of literacy in the classroom and to improve the management of literacy at school level.
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4. Literacy
   communication skill. The term literacy originally, and most often, applied to written communication; however, it can also be applied to other forms, as in media literacy, computer literacy.
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5. Literacy
   Lit'er·a·cy (lĭt'ẽr*ȧ*sȳ) noun State of being literate.
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6. literacy
   noun the ability to read and write
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7. literacy
   (lit´әr-ә-se) the ability to read and write. health literacy the extent to which a patient can understand and follow instructions from a health care provider.
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8. Literacy
   • (n.) State of being literate.
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9. literacy
   (from the article `Education`) ...children in order to prepare them for the primary grades` increasingly higher academic demands. During 2005–06 the nationwide tutoring firm Sylvan ... ...and inflation at 3.7%, owing partially to high oil prices. Price liberalization was delayed, despite proposals in July to remove subsidies. In .....
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10. Literacy
    Reading, writing, and the creative and analytical acts involved in producing and comprehending texts
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11. literacy
    Ability to read and write. The level at which functional literacy is set rises as society becomes more complex, and it becomes increasingly difficult for an illiterate person to find work and cope with the other demands of everyday life. Nearly 1 billion adults in the world, most of them women, are unable to read or write. Africa has the world'...
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12. Literacy
    `Literacy` has traditionally been described as the ability to read and write. It is a concept claimed and defined by a range of different theoretical fields. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, i...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy