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assessor
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Word definitions for assessor in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French assessor "assistant judge, assessor (in court)" (12c., Modern French assesseur ) and directly from Latin assessor "an assistant, aid; an assistant judge," in Late Latin "one who assesses taxes," literally "a sitter-by," agent ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE external ▪ For this reason a change of name is proposed from external auditors to external assessors . ▪ It is envisaged that a large proportion of the work of the external assessors will be judgmental in nature. ...
Usage examples of assessor.
I appointed the collector, as I thought, on your written recommendation, and the assessor also with your testimony of worthiness, although I know you preferred a different man.
The assessor is not a very sophisticated man, but he does have substantial, um, appetites.
As chief customs assessor of Nantes, Sigebert held some power, and was well informed of all goings and comings within the city.
Nor was it likely that Sigebert the Frank, now chief customs assessor of Nantes, would have forgotten them.
Was Nantes, not Metz, and the post he had been given there was that of customs assessor for the district.
Faraulf was wisely mute, and the customs assessor turned to one of his soldiers.
Faraulf did not ask how a captured highwayman came to be a captive of the customs assessor, and in his own manse.
I sent Sigebert of Metz there, to take up the post of chief customs assessor because I had my suspicions of him.
In actual practice, the increased valuation would probably not be made by the assessor in the manner just described.
These requirements can be met by legislation, following constitutional amendment where necessary, providing that where the owner of cut or burned-over land will contract with the State to insure reforestation and protection for a specified term of years, the State shall notify the county assessor that the land is separated for taxation purposes from any forest growth thereon.
No expense has been incurred to establish a crop, accidental growth is almost always destroyed by fire because it does not pay to protect it, and if it is not so destroyed it has not yet been accorded the expectation value which the assessor will be obliged to recognize in the early future if he really observes the present law.
But the assessor who assesses the timber as part of the real estate and assesses the same crop of timber year after year does precisely this thing.
They moved swiftly down the gravel lane that led to the manor house where the Assessor Emiliana and her family resided.
The Assessor Emiliana was diminutive in stature, but her eyes blazed with anger.
But time was indeed running out, and they needed the assessor alive and humiliated, rather than dead and a victim.