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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource: proved herself an asset to the company.
  2. n. A valuable item that is owned.
  3. n. A spy working in his or her own country and controlled by the enemy.
  4. n. Accounting The entries on a balance sheet showing all properties, both tangible and intangible, and claims against others that may be applied to cover the liabilities of a person or business. Assets can include cash, stock, inventories, property rights, and goodwill.
  5. n. The entire property owned by a person, especially a bankrupt, that can be used to settle debts.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See assets.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered.
  2. n. software Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
  3. n. espionage intelligence asset

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Any article or separable part of one's assets.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a useful or valuable quality

Etymologies

  1. From Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez "enough". (Wiktionary)
  2. Back-formation from English assets, sufficient goods to settle a testator's debts and legacies, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from asez, enough, from Vulgar Latin *ad satis, to sufficiency : Latin ad, to; see ad- + Latin satis, enough. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. liability

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. quality

hyponyms (11)

Words that are more specific

  1. long suit
  2. advantage
  1. strong suit
  2. strong point
  1. speciality
  2. strength
  1. forte
  2. resource
  1. vantage
  2. specialty
  1. métier

same context (12)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. investment
  2. resource
  1. security
  2. personnel
  1. stock
  2. strategy
  1. bond
  2. income
  1. capital
  2. debt
  1. data
  2. risk

reverse dictionary (51)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. goodwill
  2. long suit
  3. speciality
  4. specialty
  5. strength
  6. strong point
  7. strong suit
  8. métier
  9. forte
  10. good will
  1. book value
  2. repurchase agreement
  3. straight-line method
  4. straight-line method of depreciation
  5. capital gain
  6. capital loss
  7. flip
  8. leveraged buyout
  9. naked option
  10. blue chip
  1. write-down
  2. capital expenditure
  3. convertible security
  4. NAV
  5. receivable
  6. parlay
  7. incorporeal
  8. wasting asset
  9. no-load
  10. market timing
  1. current income
  2. bride wealth
  3. capital asset
  4. wear and tear
  5. write-off
  6. crown jewel
  7. write
  8. replacement cost
  9. asset
  10. beta
  1. capital
  2. cash
  3. ware
  4. glory
  5. invisible
  6. straddle
  7. intangible
  8. amortisation
  9. amortization
  10. depreciation
  1. assets

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