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asset
[ as-et ]
noun
- a useful and desirable thing or quality:
Organizational ability is an asset.
- a single item of ownership having exchange value:
Our summer home is an asset we're not willing to sell.
- Digital Technology. one of the media components that, taken together, comprise all of the elements of a video game, such as the environments, objects, character art and animation, and sound design:
All of the game assets are downloaded to your hard drive during the install, so slow load times are local and indicate a problem with your drive.
- (in intelligence and information gathering) a person followed or spied upon to obtain information, who may be consenting, forced, or unaware of being used: Compare confidential informant ( def ).
They threatened to release a catalog of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union.
- Military. a physical resource, such as a piece of equipment, vehicle, or building.
- assets. assets ( def ).
asset
/ ˈæɛ /
noun
- anything valuable or useful See also assets
experience is their main asset
asset
- A possession that can be turned into cash to cover liabilities .
Notes
Other Word Forms
- ·· adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of asset1
Example Sentences
The UK has lifted asset freezes on Syrian government bodies including the defence and interior ministries, in the latest easing of sanctions on the country.
The company has worked with clients with “large land assets” such as timber companies but has also worked with schools, corporations and private assets.
The financial products to be launched by Trump Media & Technology Group, owner of the Truth Social platform, and its partners will include digital assets as well as stocks with a "Made in America focus".
Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya told a news conference that all of the Brotherhood's offices would be closed and its assets confiscated, and that any activities would be considered illegal.
But the trade war has shaken confidence in the assets.
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