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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To estimate the value of (property) for taxation.
  2. v. To set or determine the amount of (a payment, such as a tax or fine).
  3. v. To charge (a person or property) with a special payment, such as a tax or fine.
  4. v. Sports To charge a player, coach, or team with (a foul or penalty).
  5. v. To determine the value, significance, or extent of; appraise. See Synonyms at estimate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To set, fix, or charge a certain sum upon, by way of tax: as, to assess each individual in due proportion.
  2. To estimate the value or amount of (property or income) as a basis for taxation.—3. To set, fix, or determine: as, it is the province of a jury to assess damages.
  3. n. Assessment.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate
  2. v. To give or charge with (as with penalties in sports).
  3. v. To impose or subject to (taxation and legal).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.
  2. v. To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.
  3. v. To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax.
  4. v. To fix or determine the rate or amount of.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
  2. v. charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine
  3. v. estimate the value of (property) for taxation
  4. v. set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

Etymologies

  1. Middle English assessen, from Old French assesser, from Latin assidēre, assess-, to sit by as an assistant judge : ad-, ad- + sedēre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

Examples

  • “What we have got to assess is the value of the deal against the dislocation or whatever of any potential comments from the regulators.”

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  • “The second thing they must guess/assess is their faith in you to do accomplish something of a similar magnitude to the comps, generally expressed as a percentage. posted by redbarren at 6: 27 PM”

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  • “The first thing you have to assess is why did you lose," he said.”

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  • “But the first thing you have to assess is why did you lose.”

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  • “The most difficult risk to assess is the political uncertainty, which would, of course, be aggravated by any or all of the other uncertainties.”

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  • “- Related to the first question, to what degree does the rubric assess for specific skills and knowledge that are needed by students as they progress from this course to others?”

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  • “In test process management, it is important to plemented into the project is efficient, effective in terms assess the effectiveness of different testing techniques, in of factors such as cost, time, and the number of bugs that terms of their ability to expose errors and also the size of can be detected.”

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  • “Issuing the security advisory is Step 3, called assess and stabilize, where "the engineering team investigates and develops the solution, while the communications team reaches out to provide guidance to customers and partners.”

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  • “Then assess, which is "best". so, do you know any software can convert to a good MPEG2 file, the best converter”

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  • “He also points out that while conventional dictionaries offer a number of senses to define each word, little help has traditionally been given to the reader to enable them to assess which is the most likely meaning for their purposes.”

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  • qroqqa Impact assessment seems a perfectly normal kind of assessing. You can also study, evaluate, judge, or prepare for something that will came about in the future. Jul 21, 2010

  • bookriter In the UN, a peculiar usage of the word "assess" is emerging. One source is a General Comment by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which refers to "process of child impact assessment (predicting the impact of any proposed law, policy or budgetary allocation which affects children and the enjoyment of their rights) and child impact evaluation (evaluating the actual impact of implementation)." (General Comment No.5, para.45) It seems to me a misuse, because I don't believe that the work "assess" should be used to refer to something that doesn't exist, because it is in the future. Comments? Jul 21, 2010

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