tech-savvy

American  

[tek-sav-ee] / ˈtɛkˌsæv i /

Or tech savvy

adjective

1. having much knowledge of or skill with current technology, especially digital technology.

   You don't have to be a very tech-savvy teacher to use these online resources in your classroom.

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noun

1. Usually tech savvy knowledge of or skill with current technology, especially digital technology.

   If I can learn the software this quickly, with my limited tech savvy, then hopefully others can as well.

   There’s a group called Teen Tech Volunteers who use their tech-savvy to assist adults with basic computer usage.

Etymology

Origin of tech-savvy

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Browne had roles in the 2004 film “Raising Helen,” which starred Kate Hudson as a jet-setting executive assistant at a modeling agency who suddenly finds herself appointed the guardian of her sister’s three children, and the 1995 crime thriller “Hackers,” about a group of tech-savvy teens who stumble upon a cyber crime, featuring Angelina Jolie.

From Los Angeles Times

It took a tech-savvy officer to find a breakthrough in the Jan. 6 pipe-bombs case.

From The Wall Street Journal

The data turned out to be essential to cracking the case, the people said, a breakthrough that happened only recently when a tech-savvy law-enforcement officer wrote a new computer program that finally deciphered the information.

From The Wall Street Journal

For tech-savvy users, there’s a wealth of advanced settings tucked away in the menu, including protocol selection, kill switch customization and split tunneling rules.

From Salon

It might seem like a stretch, but Kahlo Foundation Chair Rick Miramontez says it will make sense to a certain kind of new-school, tech-savvy collector and donor.

From MarketWatch