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as⋅sess⋅ment

  [uh-ses-muhnt]
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–noun
1. the act of assessing; appraisal; evaluation.
2. an official valuation of property for the purpose of levying a tax; an assigned value.
3. an amount assessed as payable.
Origin:
1530–40; assess + -ment
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as·sess·ment   (ə-sěs'mənt)   
n.  
  1. The act of assessing; appraisal.
  2. An amount assessed, as for taxation.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Assessment

As*sess"ment\, n. [LL. assessamentum.]

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"). [U. S.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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assessment

The appraisal of property for the purposes of taxation.

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