Assessment

//əˈsɛsmənt// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    the market value set on assets wordnet
  5. 5
    the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth wordnet
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  1. 6
    an amount determined as payable wordnet

Synonyms

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appraisaljudgmentaccountallowanceanalyzingappraisal

Example

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"The assessment of communist countries is positive overall."

Etymology

From assess + -ment.

Related phrases

A&O assessmentDISC assessmentalert and oriented assessmentauthentic assessmente-assessmentenvironmental assessmentlanguage assessmentrisk assessmentself-assessmenttax assessment

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