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asset

[ as-et ]

noun

  1. a useful and desirable thing or quality:

    Organizational ability is an asset.

  2. a single item of ownership having exchange value:

    Our summer home is an asset we're not willing to sell.

  3. Digital Technology. one of the media components that, taken together, comprise all of the elements of a video game, such as the environments, objects, character art and animation, and sound design:

    All of the game assets are downloaded to your hard drive during the install, so slow load times are local and indicate a problem with your drive.

  4. (in intelligence and information gathering) a person followed or spied upon to obtain information, who may be consenting, forced, or unaware of being used: Compare confidential informant ( def ).

    They threatened to release a catalog of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union.

  5. Military. a physical resource, such as a piece of equipment, vehicle, or building.
  6. assets. assets ( def ).


asset

/ ˈæsɛt /

noun

  1. anything valuable or useful See also assets

    experience is their main asset

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


asset

  1. A possession that can be turned into cash to cover liabilities .


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Notes

Commonly, the term denotes anything of value.
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Other Words From

  • as·set·less adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of asset1

First recorded in 1525–35; back formation from assets, in phrase have assets, literally, “have enough (to pay obligations),” from Anglo-French, Old French asez “enough,” from unattested Vulgar Latin ad satis “to sufficiency”; assai 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of asset1

C19: back formation from assets
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Example Sentences

A rising China can be a significant asset for the region and the world, and selfishly, for the United States.

However, search bars are a valuable asset that can increase internal sessions and conversion.

It helps establish your company as an entity, which in itself is a great asset to your SEO.

At the same time, they have all but stopped lending money for the higher-end properties worth too much for the government to accept, suggesting that the banks are knowingly passing climate liabilities along to taxpayers as stranded assets.

The emphasis has shifted away from obsessing over consistency of tone and protecting brand assets.

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First, his credentials: He did international mergers and acquisitions at Lazard, a financial and asset management firm.

What had been the greatest asset of the paperback revolution,” observes Rabinowitz, “became its greatest danger.

Its biggest asset, of course, is the steely Atwell, who never asks you to feel sorry for Carter despite all the sexism around her.

Perhaps one of the most egregious examples is the abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws.

At the same time she became an accomplished social and political asset to her boss.

In such incompetent hands the malt business soon fell to be a liability rather than an asset.

In an army thoroughly disorganised a good draughtsman with an eye for country was no despicable asset.

But that he did not count an asset, because he had not himself taken account of this new capital.

The whole thing wasn't any bigger an asset than a job as a section hand on the U P.

Getting out the Standing Room Only sign is always an asset for future entertainments.

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