Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To estimate the price or value of.
- transitive verb To make a considered judgment about; assess or size up: synonym: estimate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- . To value; prize.
- To value in current money; officially set a price upon; estimate the value of: used especially of the action of a person or persons appointed for the purpose, under direction of law or by agreement of persons interested: as, to
appraise the goods and estate of a deceased person, or goods taken under a distress for rent. - To estimate generally, in regard to quality, service, size, weight, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose.
- transitive verb To estimate; to conjecture.
- transitive verb obsolete To praise; to commend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb proscribed To
apprise ,inform . - verb To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
- verb To
estimate ; toconjecture . - verb To
praise ; tocommend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- verb consider in a comprehensive way
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Park at the curb (by the owls) to "appraise" him of the suspected rodent murder at the school grounds.
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Hecker had quietly stashed in North Dakota allegedly so jeweler friends could "appraise" them.
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If your job were to appraise toxic debt could you in all honesty exclude the factors noted above, that interfere with price discovery?
Adams bankers say they'll go after Breedlove (Jack Bog's Blog)
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At Christie's since 1998, Giovanna Bertazzoni has a relentless schedule, flying in and out of the British capital regularly to meet with private collectors to appraise their works.
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The final item on our agenda, the raison d'être I'd invited Mr. Keno over in the first place, was to examine the table by the front door, the one that resembled the piece of furniture I'd seen him appraise on "Roadshow," and which also came from my grandmother.
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The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.
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Most "well-managed" organizations have collected the information they need to appraise the 2010 performance of their employees and either have given -- or are about to give -- the results to them.
Ed Lawler: Evaluating Employees? Add Environmental and Societal Impact to Your Performance Checklist
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The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.
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Most "well-managed" organizations have collected the information they need to appraise the 2010 performance of their employees and either have given -- or are about to give -- the results to them.
Ed Lawler: Evaluating Employees? Add Environmental and Societal Impact to Your Performance Checklist
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The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.
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