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literacy (iou)



literacy noun. L19.
[from LITERATE: see -ACY. After earlier ILLITERACY.]
The quality or state of being literate; knowledge of letters; condition in respect to education, esp. ability to read and write.
Comb.: COMPUTER literacy; literacy hour a period in school set aside for developing reading skills, introduced as a daily requirement in English primary schools in 1998.