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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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