Assess
[ə'ses] or [ə'sɛs]
Definition
(verb.) estimate the value of (property) for taxation; 'Our house hasn't been assessed in years'.
(verb.) charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine.
Checker: Roland--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.
(v.) To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.
(v.) To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.
(v.) To fix or determine the rate or amount of.
Checker: Wilbur
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Tax, charge as one's share.[2]. Value, appraise, compute, estimate, rate.
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Definition
v.t. to fix the amount of as a tax (with upon): to tax or fine: to fix the value or profits of for taxation (with at): to estimate.—adj. Assess′able.—ns. Assess′ment act of assessing: a valuation for the purpose of taxation: a tax; Assess′or a legal adviser who sits beside a magistrate: one who assesses taxes: one who shares another's dignity.—adj. Assessō′rial.—n. Assess′orship.
Editor: Rosanne
Examples
- From others he demands a certain sum, but leaves it to the states of each province to assess and levy that sum as they think proper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The greater part of it was laid upon the country; and of what was laid upon the towns, the greater part was assessed upon the houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In some towns, the whole land tax is assessed upon houses; as in Westminster, where stock and trade are free. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Where such taxes, therefore, are properly assessed, and upon proper commodities, they are paid with less grumbling than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They could not, therefore, be assessed according to any rent roll. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The valuation, according to which each different parish and district is assessed to this tax, is always the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The inferior ranks of people in the provinces are assessed in the second. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No man subject to such a tax, it is evident, can ever be certain, before he is assessed, of what he is to pay. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The more severe government of France assesses upon each generality a certain sum, which the intendant must find as he can. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He condemns a whole street at a time, assesses the damages, pays them, and rebuilds superbly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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