Assessment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈsɛsmənt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Assessment is a noun meaning The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
Meaning
The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
More Meanings
- An appraisal or evaluation.
Example Sentences
[…] 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.
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.
Word Forms
- assessments
Synonyms for assessment
Depending on context, synonyms include judgment, appraisal, judgement.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include appraisal, judgement, judgment, assessor, assessing, assess.
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