nous

Reader's Digest 11月号の記事Turn a Hobby Into a Real Jobからの引用です。
People mightn't have the money or mightn't yet have built up the general life-skills and nous to run a business.
"nous" にはどんな意味があるのでしょうか？　辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: British Common sense; practical intelligence: if he had any nous at all, he’d sell the movie rights
・Cambridge English Dictionary: good judgment and practical ability: Anyone with a bit of nous would have known what to do.
"practical intelligence" ですか、私は余り持ち合わせていない気がします。