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What does gumption mean?

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Noun
  1. (Britain) common sense, initiative, resourcefulness
  2. (US) Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.
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Unbridled teenage gumption as practiced in the U.S., it seems, is the answer to all problems.
Working this out at home will permit you to schedule around it, and will give you enough gumption to face the chaos at the festival theatres.
But if the migrants bike from a poor country to our rich one, they are demonstrating not British gumption but foreign deviousness.
Since then, despite showing terrific gumption to answer all the questions asked of them, they have not played teams of this calibre.
He should take enormous pride that his enthusiasm and gumption have turned Motherwell around in recent years.
Under the circumstances they bet on independence, gumption and initiative of section and crew commanders and leaders of combat teams.

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