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Assess

verb

(past & past part. assessed; pres. part. assessing)

Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of. Synonyms: appraise, evaluate, measure, valuate, value. "Access all the factors when taking a risk"

Charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine.

Set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine). Synonym: tax.

Estimate the value of (property) for taxation.

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"Assess" Quotes from Famous Books

... valuation. This house stands in an unopened street. Supervisor McCafferty said that the committee would do all in its power to have the assessment reduced, and also remarked that it was a positive outrage to assess such a small house at so high a figure. Mrs. Louisa St. John, who is reputed to be worth $2,000,000, complained because three lots on Fifth avenue, near Eighty-sixth street, and five lots on the last-named street, have been assessed at much higher figures than other lots in the neighborhood. ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... said the Judge, "but practically, how are you going to assess bail for a man who is to be tried for his life? What amount of money will guarantee his reappearance? Why, no sum, ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... of Libya set down in order in documents, as the Romans had recorded them in former times,[25] inasmuch as Gizeric had upset and destroyed everything in the beginning, Tryphon and Eustratius were sent by the emperor, in order to assess the taxes for the Libyans each according to his proportion. But these men seemed to the ...

— History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) - The Vandalic War • Procopius

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