assessment

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Meaning

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.

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.

The specific sum levied or assessed.

An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call").

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom. Fernando Flores

Well, what does "good” mean anyway...? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good,” like "game,” has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation.”. John Searle

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. Marcus Aurelius

Independence is a very subjective assessment. P. Chidambaram

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.' Peter Higgs

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