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assessment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /əˈsɛsmənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sedéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *sedēō Latin sedeō Latin assideō Latin assessus Medieval Latin assessareder. Old French assesserbor. Middle English assessen English assess Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English assessment From assess + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
2. (countable, uncountable) An appraisal or evaluation.
   • 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. 1989 January 14, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 127:
   • […] without a stemmatic approach, when this method allows clear results (and there are definitely cases where it does), it is simply impossible to provide any sound assessment of the value of the individual witnesses. 2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 493:
   • Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 523:

Forms

Deriveds

language assessment · preassessment · risk assessment · DISC assessment · underassessment · tax assessment · environmental assessment · reassessment · nonassessment · postassessment · alert and oriented assessment · e-assessment · teleassessment · overassessment · A&O assessment · self-assessment · bioassessment · authentic assessment · misassessment

Translations (100)

nl schatting (act of assessing a tax) · fr évaluation (act of assessing a tax) · ca valoració (appraisal) · oc evaluacion (appraisal) · sv bedömning (appraisal) · cmn 評估 /评估 (appraisal) · sv uppskattning (appraisal) · bg оценя́ване (appraisal) · fa-ira اَرْزْیابی (appraisal) · ota تقدیر (appraisal) · ko 평가 (appraisal) · uk оці́нювання (appraisal) · ja 評価 (appraisal) · uk оці́нка майна (act of assessing a tax) · uk оці́нка (appraisal) · cmn 估算 (appraisal) · sw upimaji (appraisal) · sk zhodnotenie (appraisal) · ga measúnacht (appraisal) · hi मूल्यांकन (act of assessing a tax) · cs hodnocení (appraisal) · fi veromäärä (act of assessing a tax) · da vurdering (appraisal) · de Schätzung (act of assessing a tax) · de Bewertung (appraisal) · gd measadh (act of assessing a tax) · pt avaliação (appraisal) · nl beoordeling (appraisal) · mi arotakenga (appraisal) · ar تَقْيِيم (appraisal) · de Begutachtung (appraisal) · es valoración (appraisal) · uk су́ма оподаткува́ння (act of assessing a tax) · uk оподаткува́ння (act of assessing a tax) · hi नापजोख (appraisal) · fr évaluation (appraisal) · eu balorazio (appraisal) · sv skattning (appraisal) · be ацэ́ньваньне (appraisal) · gd measadh (appraisal) · fr estimation (appraisal) · ca avaluació (act of assessing a tax) · es evaluación (appraisal) · ro evaluare (appraisal) · bg оце́нка (appraisal) · it valutazione (appraisal) · hu felmérés (appraisal) · bg обла́гане (act of assessing a tax) · es expertización (act of assessing a tax) · es evaluación (act of assessing a tax) · ru оце́нка (appraisal) · hu adókivetés (act of assessing a tax) · mk оценка (appraisal) · hi निर्धारण (act of assessing a tax) · ru оце́нивание (appraisal) · cmn 評價 /评价 (act of assessing a tax) · de Schätzung (appraisal) · he אֻמְדָּן (act of assessing a tax) · es expertizaje (act of assessing a tax) · pl bilans (act of assessing a tax) · la taxātiō (appraisal) · pl ocena (appraisal) · fi verottaminen (act of assessing a tax) · af belastingaanslag (act of assessing a tax) · ar تَقْدِير (appraisal) · ro evaluare (act of assessing a tax) · sw upimaji (act of assessing a tax) · be ацэ́нка (appraisal) · sv värdering (appraisal) · de Bewertung (act of assessing a tax) · la aestimātiō (appraisal) · cmn 估算 (act of assessing a tax) · eu ebaluazio (appraisal) · id penilaian (act of assessing a tax) · hu értékelés (appraisal) · ca avaluació (appraisal) · hu véleményezés (appraisal) · sv utvärdering (appraisal) · sk ocenenie (appraisal) · nl inschatting (act of assessing a tax) · hu minősítés (appraisal) · cmn 評價 /评价 (appraisal) · hu kirovás (act of assessing a tax) · af assessering (appraisal) · fi arviointi (appraisal) · eu zehazte (appraisal) · ar تَقْيِيم (act of assessing a tax) · hu kivetés (act of assessing a tax) · nl taxatie (appraisal) · hi मूल्यांकन (appraisal) · it accertamento (act of assessing a tax) · sk hodnotenie (appraisal) · ru оце́нка налогообложе́ния (act of assessing a tax) · nl afweging (appraisal) · da bedømmelse (appraisal) · nl waardering (appraisal) · cmn 評估 /评估 (act of assessing a tax) · pt contabilização (act of assessing a tax) · fi taksoittaminen (act of assessing a tax) · be ацэ́ньванне (appraisal)