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Assessment
//əˈsɛsmənt// noun
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Noun
- 1 The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed. countable, uncountable
- 2 the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event wordnet
- 3 An appraisal or evaluation. countable, uncountable
"For every item taken into consideration, the question of its status in terms of history has to be raised; if a word can safely be taken to have been borrowed, it will require an assessment different from that appropriate for a native lexeme."
- 4 the market value set on assets wordnet
- 5 the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth wordnet
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- 6 an amount determined as payable wordnet
Etymology
From assess + -ment.
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