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Definition of Assess
1. Verb. Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of. "Access all the factors when taking a risk"
Specialized synonyms: Grade, Mark, Score, Rate, Value, Standardise, Standardize, Reassess, Reevaluate, Censor, Praise
Generic synonyms: Evaluate, Judge, Pass Judgment
Derivative terms: Appraisal, Appraiser, Appraiser, Assessable, Assessment, Assessor, Evaluation, Evaluation, Evaluative, Evaluator, Value, Value, Measure, Measure, Measure, Valuation, Valuator, Value, Value, Value, Valuer
2. Verb. Charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine.
3. Verb. Set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine).
4. Verb. Estimate the value of (property) for taxation. "Our house hasn't been assessed in years"
Related verbs: Appraise, Evaluate, Measure, Valuate, Value
Derivative terms: Assessable, Assessment
Definition of Assess
1. v. t. To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.
Definition of Assess
1. Verb. (transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assess
1. to estimate the value of for taxation [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Literary usage of Assess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial report by Minnesota Tax Commission, Washington (State). Board of State Land Commissioners, Washington (State), Board of State Land Commissioners (1912)
"The uniform, universal custom has been to assess at from 25 to 50 per cent of
... Causes of Failure to assess at "True and Full Value" The causes which have ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... Legislature that It Includes interest upon the unpaid part of an old assessment
am] part of the expense of levying that assess- Submitted Jan. 10,1887. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Writ of Scire Facias, with an Appendix of References to Forms by Thomas Campbell Foster (1851)
"The jury have authority under the statute to assess damages The iury, on all
breaches assigned in the declaration or replication, though summoned summoned ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"Tribunal or Body to assess Damages. — The tribunal by which the amount of
compensation to the land-owner is to be determined must be prescribed by positive ..."
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