Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource.
- noun A valuable item that is owned.
- noun A spy working in his or her own country and controlled by the enemy.
- noun Accounting The entries on a balance sheet showing all properties, both tangible and intangible, and claims against others that may be applied to cover the liabilities of a person or business. Assets can include cash, stock, inventories, property rights, and goodwill.
- noun The entire property owned by a person, especially a bankrupt, that can be used to settle debts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
assets .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any article or separable part of one's assets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something or someone of any
value ; any portion of one'sproperty oreffects so considered. - noun software Any
component ,model ,process orframework ofvalue that can beleveraged orreused . - noun espionage
intelligence asset
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a useful or valuable quality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Washington Post readers may not have known the term "asset protection" a week ago, but with this help from FICO, they'll figure it out soon.
Nicholas Carroll: FICO's New Strategic Default Predictor: Closing the Barn Door After the Horse Is Gone Nicholas Carroll 2011
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Your main asset is credibility, not money or size.
8 Valuable Lessons Newspapers Must Learn From Bloggers to Survive | Write to Done 2009
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Its main asset is the Ingka Holding group, which is conservatively financed and highly profitable: post-tax profits were €1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) — an impressive margin of nearly 11% on sales of €12.8 billion — in the year to August 31st 2004, the latest year for which the group has filed accounts.
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Note 14: Its main asset is the complete archive of EAM (the National Liberation Front), including the archives of the 'Mountain Government', which administered the liberated regions of Greece.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Then early in the Obama administration, regulators threw the real estate industry a bone, expanding a financial rescue program, the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF), to commercial-mortgage-backed securities, thereby muffling calls for a broader industry rescue.
The Other Shoe 2009
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The federal government has already been proactive in addressing the crisis, specifically concerning the inclusion of commercial real estate in the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF) legislation and recent changes issued by Treasury to ease tax regulations governing real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs).
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The fifth round of the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF) in support of CMBS was held by the New York Fed just last Wednesday, to no avail for new CMBS issuance.
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The fifth round of the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF) in support of CMBS was held by the New York Fed just last Wednesday, to no avail for new CMBS issuance.
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The federal government has already been proactive in addressing the crisis, specifically concerning the inclusion of commercial real estate in the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF) legislation and recent changes issued by Treasury to ease tax regulations governing real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs).
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Then early in the Obama administration, regulators threw the real estate industry a bone, expanding a financial rescue program, the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF), to commercial-mortgage-backed securities, thereby muffling calls for a broader industry rescue.
The Other Shoe 2009
dreamerdiver commented on the word asset
assetious - adj. having the characteristics of an asset; to be of some value
January 14, 2015