asset

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The public schools are Columbia's greatest asset, and the asset is at risk.

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  1. noun A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource: proved herself an asset to the company.
  2. noun A valuable item that is owned.
  3. noun A spy working in his or her own country and controlled by the enemy.

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  • The public schools are Columbia's greatest asset, and the asset is at risk. —  Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
  • For these assets, the holder might have sought to sell in the past, notwithstanding low offers, because the asset was already being carried at a low price. —  Floyd Norris
  • The watchword, according to Speiss: "You shouldn't be pulling income, selling anything or exercising anything if the valuation of the asset is artificially low." —  WSJ.com: What's News US
  • The answer to this hinges upon the issue of whether or not the value of the asset will improve if these organizations work with the asset, especially if the asset is a loan that the borrower has some chance of repaying in large part. —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • Worried about inflation in 2006, in which the housing bubble was the inevitable consequence of trying to maintain American asset prices and output valuation at nonequilibrium levels, Greenspan's fall guy Bernanke took rates up, killing the housing bubble, and then took rates down while revving up the printing presses to stave off a credit-market collapse. —  Mises Dailies
 

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  1. 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; see sā- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/ˈæsɛt/
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