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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.

    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.



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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Commonly, the term denotes anything of value.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • assetless adjective
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51Թ 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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of asset1

C19: back formation from assets
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Linear TV’s struggles have led media companies to spin off their traditional television assets, including cable networks, into separate entities.

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"We've already been moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support across the region," he told reporters.

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Its most criticized traits are actually its biggest assets.

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In exploring the pull between love and liquid assets, Song cleverly acknowledges how we’ve been facing this internal war for epochs.

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"Why are we giving away this crown jewel asset when we most need it?"

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