Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of assessor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or function of an assessor.
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- noun The office or function of an
assessor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I told him I thought the assessorship games would change relatively soon.
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His family has had the assessorship "responsibilities" for most of Uptown for several generations.
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Re: reforming & consolidating N.O.'s 7 wasteful assessorship fiefdoms:
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Re: reforming & consolidating N.O.'s 7 wasteful assessorship fiefdoms:
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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More courts magistrates and prosecutors were needed for an effective system of assessorship, SABC radio news reports.
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He cited the delay of cases as one of the problems of the system of assessorship.
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Charles XII to an assessorship on the Board of Mines (1716).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In 1747 he resigned his assessorship and, at his request, received as a pension the half of his salary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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An assessorship in Chicago is worth nominally 1500 dollars per annum, but "everyone knows that in Chicago an assessorship is the shortest cut to fortune."
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895
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I saw him attain his doctor's degree, and then raise himself to the assessorship, without any thing of all this appearing arduous to him, or his having in the least hurried or been too late with any thing.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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