Word Meanings - ASSESSMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club. 2. A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation

Additional info about word: ASSESSMENT

1. The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club. 2. A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property. Note: An assessment is a valuation made by authorized persons according to their discretion, as opposed to a sum certain or determined by law. It is a valuation of the property of those who are to pay the tax, for the purpose of fixing the proportion which each man shall pay. Blackstone. Burrill. 3. The specific sum levied or assessed. 4. An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call").

Related words: (words related to ASSESSMENT)

• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• ASSESSABLE
  Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• ASSESSORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe.
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• DETERMINIST
  One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
• DETERMINISM
  The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.
• TAXATION
  The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. 3. Tax; sum imposed. Daniel. 4. Charge; accusation. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• ASSESSEE
  One who is assessed.
• DETERMINATIVE
  Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. Incidents . . . determinative of their course. I. Taylor. Determinative tables , tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the
• DETERMINATELY
  1. In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably. The principles of religion are already either determinately true or false, before you think of them. Tillotson. 2. Resolutely; unchangeably. Being determinately . . . bent to marry. Sir P.
• DETERMINABILITY
  The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.
• PURPOSER
  1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
• DETERMINATOR
  One who determines. Sir T. Browne.
• ASSESS
  taxation, fr. L. assidere, supine as if assessum, to sit by, esp. of 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
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• CO-ASSESSOR
  A joint assessor.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• REASSESSMENT
  A renewed or second assessment.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• DISVALUATION
  Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute. Bacon.
• INDETERMINATE
  Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis , that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate
• UNDETERMINATION
  Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
• INDETERMINED
  Undetermined.