Assessment Meaning
/əˈsɛsmənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
nounAn appraisal or evaluation.
Sentence Examples
The assessment of communist countries is positive overall.
Tom agreed with Mary's assessment.
A detailed assessment of the risks involved
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor's initial ____ of the patient's condition was cautiously optimistic.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The initial ____ of the situation was that it was not very serious.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sedéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *sedēō Latin sedeō Latin assideō Latin assessus Medieval Latin assessareder. Old French assesserbor. Middle English assessen English assess Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English assessment From assess + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"For every item taken into consideration, the question of its status in terms of history has to be raised; if a word can safely be taken to have been borrowed, it will require an assessment different from that appropriate for a native lexeme."
— 1989 January 26, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 127:
"[…] without a stemmatic approach, when this method allows clear results (and there are definitely cases where it does), it is simply impossible to provide any sound assessment of the value of the individual witnesses."
— 2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 493:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor's initial ____ of the patient's condition was cautiously optimistic.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The initial ____ of the situation was that it was not very serious.