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It means lacking knowledge or understanding about something. Example: The new employee was completely illiterate about the company's policies, causing confusion and mistakes in their work.
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"Most ministers are very illiterate about any serious technology," Davis complained back then.
Recently, I was talking to a home help, who's illiterate, about her daughter's education.
We are unsophisticated and unrealistic in the information we pour online, naively trusting of the places we store it and woefully illiterate about the implications of doing so.
Martin wrote: "Educated young people today come out of American high schools not only illiterate about math and science, but without the knowledge of history and literature once considered basic.
Indeed, in Dr. Postol's view, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, the head of the Pentagon's ballistic missile office, are "technically illiterate" about missile defense.
About that much of its population is illiterate, about that much of its potential urban work force is unemployed and about that many of its buildings were destroyed by pro-Indonesian militias in a rampage of revenge when it voted for independence a little over a year ago.
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About two-thirds of the respondents were illiterate and about 60% of FSWs earned money from other activities.
He is also nervous about sticking out, now that he has assumed the role of spokesman for families, mostly illiterate, asking about relatives who are in military custody.
It is a gutsy concept, to invest this heavily in a small group of mostly illiterate women — about 180 leadership recruits per year — in the hope that they will catalyze social change.
In the early days, it was like the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Oxford English Dictionary rolled into one, teaching a mostly illiterate country about everything from umbrellas to fertilizer to how to write the word "pigeon".
In fact, arguably the only "legally illiterate" thing about the legal aid debate is Labour's disingenuity in claiming that they would not make any cuts, when this was in fact exactly what they were planning to do when they were in power.
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