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asset

[ as-et ]

noun

  1. a useful and desirable thing or quality:

    Organizational ability is an asset.

  2. a single item of ownership having exchange value:

    Our summer home is an asset we're not willing to sell.

  3. 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.

  4. (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.

  5. Military. a physical resource, such as a piece of equipment, vehicle, or building.
  6. assets. assets ( def ).


asset

/ ˈæɛ /

noun

  1. anything valuable or useful See also assets

    experience is their main asset

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

asset

  1. A possession that can be turned into cash to cover liabilities .
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Notes

Commonly, the term denotes anything of value.
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Other Word Forms

  • ·· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of asset1

First recorded in 1525–35; back formation from assets, in phrase have assets, literally, “have enough (to pay obligations),” from Anglo-French, Old French asez “enough,” from unattested Vulgar Latin ad satis “to sufficiency”; assai 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of asset1

C19: back formation from assets
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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.

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The company has worked with clients with “large land assets” such as timber companies but has also worked with schools, corporations and private assets.

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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".

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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.

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But the trade war has shaken confidence in the assets.

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