assess

[As*sess·]

Before you try to sell your car, you should ask an expert to assess its value––once you know what it's worth, it's easier to find a fair price. When you assess a matter, you make a judgment about it.

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To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

Verb
place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"

Verb
estimate the value of (property) for taxation; "Our house hasn''t been assessed in years"

Verb
set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

Verb
charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine


v.
To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

v.
To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

v.
To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.

v.
To fix or determine the rate or amount of.


Assess

As*sess" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assessed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Assessing.] [OF. assesser to regulate, settle, LL. assessare to value for taxation, fr. L. assidere, supine as if assessum, to sit by, esp. of judges in a court, in LL. to assess, tax. Cf. Assize, v., Cess.] 1. To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation. 2. To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment. 3. To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents. 4. To fix or determine the rate or amount of.
This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act.

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

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Usage Examples

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.

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Other Usage Examples

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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