English Dictionary

finesse

IPA（発音記号）

/fɪˈnɛs/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. / (uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. / (countable) An adroit manoeuvre.

日本語の意味

状況を巧みに処理する能力や技巧 / 洗練、上品、優雅、巧妙といった特性 / 巧妙な一手、または手腕

Negotiating the complex contract required remarkable finesse from the legal team.

複雑な契約を交渉するには、法務チームの並外れた手腕が必要だった。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.

It is not impossible that this bold attempt to wrest from this State and Nation, so large and important a frontier territory; with the insidious arts, and unblushing finesse and chicanery, with which the British pretensions have been managed, may yet awaken the American people from their apathy on the subject— […]

意味（2）

(uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.

An Indian known by the name of Silver Heels, from his superior agility, as well as his admirable finesse in the art of war, and who had killed more of the enemy than any one of the tribes in alliance with Great Britain, accidentally came into the fort just before the soldier was to receive his punishment, and expressed his displeasure that a man should be so shamefully disgraced.

意味（3）

(countable) An adroit manoeuvre.

The first inroads on our laws of incest were made at the instigation, and by the secret management, of some of our prime nobles, who had either seduced, or married, or pledged themselves to marry a wife's sister; and who wished by this finesse, to escape, at once, public odium and personal responsibility; […]

意味（4）

(countable, card games) 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.

The Finesse Proper.—When, upon the invite of your partner, you refuse to force with your strongest card, or one of equal strength, you are in the case of the finesse proper. Holding the ace, queen, and ten, and taking with the queen, is a simple finesse; that is, a finesse to the king.

finesses （ plural ）