Thesaurus results for ASSESSMENT

assessment

noun

ə-ˈses-mənt

Definition of assessment

as in tax

a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use hated paying the annual assessment on his car

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as in appraisal

an opinion on the nature, character, or quality of something I'm far too quiet, in the assessment of my new boss

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as in evaluation

the act of placing a value on the nature, character, or quality of something we may have been too hasty in our assessment of the value of the property

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Recent Examples of assessment Pakistan has trained Saudi military personnel since 1967, and a declassified CIA assessment from 1985 estimated that 13,000 to 14,000 Pakistanis were serving in the Saudi army. — Will Barker, TheWeek, 8 Oct. 2026 Your iPhone creates an on-device assessment and sends that assessment, rather than the underlying device data, to Apple. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Michael Fine, who retired as FCMAT’s CEO at the end of September, offered a bleak assessment. — Chaewon Chung updated October 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026 However, investigators did not find any documentation of any such threat assessments. — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for assessment

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Noun

The tax generates more than a half-billion dollars for county public schools, district estimates show, and the vast majority of it supplements the salaries of teachers like Fortich.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Families who expect their child to go to college may consider opening a 529 savings plan which offers tax advantages like tax-free growth when it's used for qualifying education expenses and potentially state tax-deductible contributions.

— Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

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The company’s responsibilities have included negotiating acquisitions, structuring deals, ensuring project appraisals are completed and collaborating with the state agency that Bell leads.

— Rob Davis, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2026
How Items Are Evaluated and Offers Communicated Once the package has been opened, Sell Your Gold separates the pieces for evaluation and records the appraisal work.

— Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of appraisal

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No payment is requested or exchanged at any point during the selection, evaluation or ranking process; inclusion is based solely on the methodology.

— Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Topstep, a futures prop-trading firm, disclosed in March that roughly 17% of evaluations started in 2025 were successfully completed.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of evaluation

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Since then, 80 of her paintings have fetched more than $100,000 at auction, with the majority exceeding their high estimates, according to the Artnet Price Database.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Coupled with a 118 kWh (usable) battery pack, that should allow for about 400 miles (644 km) on a single charge, although a formal EPA estimate will show up closer to the car’s arrival in US dealerships in mid-2027.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of estimate

Noun

Not only that, but the biggest play of the game, in Reid’s estimation, was made by the kickoff-coverage team.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
This is encouraging — trustworthy system should be able to pump the breaks and realize when data inputs are too unreliable to make accurate estimations.

— Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of estimation

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The youth movement, which emerged earlier this year out of anger over high unemployment among young people and leaked examination papers, has grown into a political force.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Writer-director Reed Van Dyk’s feature debut navigates tricky emotional waters but emerges as a trenchant examination of what forgiveness and penitence can look like, allowing no room for anything resembling a pat happy ending.

— Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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