appraise

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If people have more than two items to appraise, they may get two more items appraised for $3 each.

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  1. transitive verb To evaluate, especially in an official capacity.
  2. transitive verb To estimate the quality, amount, size, and other features of; judge. See Synonyms at estimate.

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  • Up close, her laughing eyes had made him re-appraise her. —  David A
  • A CBA is a formal discipline used to help appraise, or assess, the case for a project or proposal, weighing the total expected costs against the total expected benefits. —  CRM Buyer
  • Identify and supervise consultants financed by the AWF to prepare, appraise or supervise projects and programs or to carry out studies and other operational activities; —  Database of Press Releases related to Africa
  • The company offers integrated services to register, appraise, buy, sell, monetize and develop more than 8 million combined domain name properties.
  • A notice on Monday's Health page reported the wrong date that John Humphries will be available to appraise collectibles and antiques during the American Cancer Society's art and antique event at The Shop. —  Local News
 

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appraise:   appraising ·  appraised
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English appreisen, possibly from Old French aprisier, from Late Latin appretiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin pretium, price; see per-5 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English apraysen, *apreisen, also aprisen (later modern apprise, apprize, q. v.), and also simply praisen, preisen, praise, appraise, from Old French *apreiser, apretier, aprisier, apriser, price, value, praise, from Late Latin appretiare, value, estimate, appraise, purchase, from Latin ad, to, + pretium (later Old French preis, pris), price: see price and praise, and cf. apprize and appreciate.
 

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