Crossword clues for assess
assess
- Dunces will require special test
- They're stupid and second rate
- Give the once-over, plus
- Scope out
- Put a price on, perhaps
- Impose, as a fine
- Determine the value of property
- Place a value on
- Take stock
- Estimate (damages)
- Look over carefully
- Estimate property values, e.g
- Pass judgment on
- Estimate property values
- Determine the costs of
- Determine the amount of damage
- Determine how much damage was done, e.g
- Charge, as a fine
- Weigh carefully
- Put a dollar value on
- Perform an evaluation
- Make a rating of
- Make a measurement
- Make a judgment of
- Look at critically
- Levy, as taxes
- Give a test to, in a way
- Give a good looking-over
- Get the measure of
- Eyeball, maybe
- Estimate officially
- Do taxing work
- Do a tax job
- Do a mortgage job
- Charge, as with a foul
- (Of a tax) determine the amount to be paid
- Value
- Tax
- Gauge
- Evaluate for tax purposes
- Size up
- Take stock of
- Weigh the pros and cons
- Review, as damage
- Judge the value of
- Eyeball, say
- Do taxing work?
- Put a duty on
- Impose, as a tax
- Put a value on
- Estimate the value of
- Rate or evaluate
- Charge, as with a fine
- Measure
- Appraise property
- Weigh the merits of
- Levy, as a fine
- Impose a tax
- Do a realty-tax job
- Gauge outdated, failing to show power on steamship
- Maybe carry out OFSTED inspection among classes superficially
- Evaluate idiots' sons
- Evaluate female equine?
- Evaluate dunces, repeating one part for the fourth time
- Rate, evaluate
- Rate singers, except their lead soprano
- Points repeatedly to nurse close to collapse after advanced test
- Beasts of burden at square price
- Judge, after tip-off, goes by - heading for Specsavers?
- Judge Jenny?
- Judge fools smugly, initially
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
assess
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assess sb’s performance (=judge how good or bad it is)
▪ Banks assess the performance and prospects of firms before lending.
assess the significance of sth (=decide how important something is)
▪ It is often difficult to assess the significance of an event until more time has passed.
assess/establish/determine the extent of sth
▪ We are still trying to assess the extent of the problem.
assess/evaluate the merits of sth (=to decide what is good about something using careful methods)
▪ Has any study assessed the merits of the two schools?
assess/evaluate/review sb’s progress
▪ We appraise the work and evaluate each student’s individual progress.
assess/review a situation
▪ Ballater was trying to assess the situation objectively.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
▪ Then, during the interview you can attempt to use the candidate specification to assess how the person matches up to your requirements.
▪ I then attempted to assess how much advantage accrued from each such possible use.
▪ It is quite another thing to assess how out of balance the individual is and how to set about restoring the balance.
▪ Three of the questions in the Hull survey were designed to assess how well known these ideas have become.
▪ Much of their work will consist of assessing how much impact the measures are having.
▪ This gives the engineer a chance to hear your music and assess how to record your band.
▪ Phillips's letter assesses how cuts might affect the research councils.
▪ According to Johansson, government planners typically assess how energy demand has grown alongside economic growth.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ You will be assessed on your ability to: Present an interesting, lively, and well-structured talk on your chosen topic.
▪ His progress is assessed on his ability to respond promptly and without feeling to whatever is asked.
▪ But the education secretary says they're needed to assess a pupil's ability.
attempt
▪ These practices are highly significant for attempts to assess the way in which trusts were interpreted.
▪ The use of rose bengal dye was the first attempt at assessing liver function through dye excretion.
▪ There is no significant attempt to assess the validity of existing spending patterns.
▪ This represents an attempt to assess a level of income below which it is impossible to ensure survival.
basis
▪ Validity can therefore be assessed only on the basis of the items which are included.
▪ We live in a highly credentialed society that can only assess people on the basis of pieces of paper.
▪ It is assessed on the basis of written assignments.
▪ The effectiveness of the second vote depends of course on its being assessed on a national basis, not in separate constituencies.
▪ Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties.
▪ Will it be assessed on a daily basis as the amount of council tax will be?
benefit
▪ QALYs are a method of assessing the health benefits of a given procedure against the resources used to achieve it.
▪ It is not the task of the county councils to assess the cost benefit of the scheme in detail.
▪ Clean technology - assessing the benefits Quantitative risk assessment has been employed to aid safety management decisions for many years.
▪ Discussion Despite the increasingly widespread use of oesophageal manometry, few studies have assessed its benefit to patient management.
▪ Doctors at Leicester Royal Infirmary are to assess the benefits of giving magnesium to heart attack victims immediately after an attack.
▪ Because metering would be such a major change, trials are under way to assess the likely benefits and costs.
▪ If you are currently receiving a Rate rebate you will automatically be assessed for Poll Tax Benefit.
▪ The ruling executive wanted a decision postponed to assess a review of benefits and taxation.
change
▪ Registered images are used to assess the degree of change that has occurred during the time-period represented by the two images.
▪ Scientists are particularly interested in observing the thawing and freezing of the polar icecaps in order to assess changes in sea level.
▪ How would you assess these changes in terms of the assumptions?
▪ Each sample will be recontacted after a year and after two years to assess the degree of change amongst the young people.
▪ Personal evaluations occur bi-annually and are used to assess both changes in the basic wage and individual bonus payments.
▪ It is therefore very important to try and assess the more enduring changes shown in Figure 8.4, and Table 8.4.
▪ Judicious negotiators will at this stage look to the future to assess likely changes in the balance of power.
▪ Rather few comparative data are available from which to assess recent status changes, but these appear to have been marked.
contribution
▪ Thus, the unit of analysis for assessing performance contribution in executive selection is capabilities.
▪ Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this displeasure took the form of refusing to pay our assessed financial contribution.
▪ In assessing their contribution it should be borne in mind that many parish roads were improved while many turnpikes were neglected.
▪ This means that both paid and unpaid labour must be assessed in terms of their contributions to society and rewarded commensurately.
▪ Next year parents whose residual income is below £11,500 will not be assessed for a contribution.
cost
▪ That is, it may be easier to agree a price for a contract for clinical services than to assess cost or cost-effectiveness.
▪ By the March meeting, negotiators will have assessed new cargo preparation costs and additional experiment preparation expenses.
▪ These procedures are essentially intended to assess the social costs of school reorganization.
▪ But several businesses and consulting groups have made significant progress in the area of assessing qualitative costs.
▪ Have discussions taken place with proprietors of nursing agencies with a view to assessing the cost effectiveness of using agency nurses?
▪ It is not the task of the county councils to assess the cost benefit of the scheme in detail.
▪ It is very difficult to assess accurately the costs of corporate crime.
▪ I believed that we should assess the future cost of the whole social security system, and make any necessary changes now.
costs
▪ These procedures are essentially intended to assess the social costs of school reorganization.
▪ By the March meeting, negotiators will have assessed new cargo preparation costs and additional experiment preparation expenses.
▪ It is very difficult to assess accurately the costs of corporate crime.
▪ But several businesses and consulting groups have made significant progress in the area of assessing qualitative costs.
▪ Ask to see the previous year's bills so you can assess the running costs.
▪ Additionally, the stalemate over economic union makes it difficult to assess the costs of insurance or mortgages arranged abroad.
▪ If granted, the taxing officer assesses the costs on the same basis as for costs in contentious matters.
damage
▪ Forgetting the holidays temporarily, she headed out in her car to assess the damage for herself.
▪ State leaders will be assessing priorities today as damage inspection continues.
▪ Local traders met today to assess the damage.
▪ Mitchell trudged down the hall toward his corner office, detouring into the washroom to assess the damage to his hair.
▪ A spokesman for President Clinton said federal teams were still assessing the damage.
▪ The farmer stood back and scratched under his turban, assessing the damage to my vehicle.
▪ This is, however, the first study that also assesses gastroduodenal damage.
▪ Crandall, manager of the park, was waiting Monday for state officials to arrive to assess damage.
damages
▪ The accountants' contract with the parties was to assess damages claimed in the terms of reference.
▪ His management team gathered in a war room to assess the damages and strategize a recovery plan.
▪ There are various ways of assessing the damages recoverable for such extra expenditure.
degree
▪ Registered images are used to assess the degree of change that has occurred during the time-period represented by the two images.
▪ To enlighten the community orientation further, one can assess the degree of intensity found in the commitment to the community.
▪ During the event, extensive water quality samples were taken to assess the degree of pollution.
▪ In cases where patients had been injured by medical treatment, doctors also assessed the degree of disability.
▪ Each sample will be recontacted after a year and after two years to assess the degree of change amongst the young people.
▪ The War Pensions Branch assessed the degree of disability at 40% which he appealed against.
▪ Letters exchanged among the family assessed the degree of his depression.
effect
▪ Either way it's best to test them before you travel to assess their effect.
▪ The therapists and the interviewers who assessed treatment effect were blinded to the drug treatment the patients were receiving.
▪ Long-inbred populations might be useful for assessing the effects of new mutations.
▪ Then the flow was dropped to 8, 000 again, so scientists could assess the effects.
▪ Ralph Berger assessed the effects of meaningful verbal stimuli on dreaming.
▪ Trials are currently being carried out in 12 areas involving 62,000 properties to assess its effects.
▪ Six months after the law came into force it is hard to assess its effect.
▪ LEAs are to assess the cumulative educational effect of these decisions.
effectiveness
▪ No trials have assessed the effectiveness of bone mass screening in preventing osteoporotic fracture.
▪ As part of a trial to assess the effectiveness of follow-up radiotherapy after chemo, Carmel is not receiving the treatment.
▪ Have discussions taken place with proprietors of nursing agencies with a view to assessing the cost effectiveness of using agency nurses?
▪ This brings us on to the question of how do organizations assess the effectiveness of their advertising?
▪ The study aimed to review referral patterns and assess the cost effectiveness of oesophageal manometry in clinical practice.
▪ So is assessing the effectiveness of local advertising.
▪ Few consultants assessed the effectiveness of teaching, and feedback to juniors was rudimentary.
extent
▪ However, a consideration of this measure reveals the problems faced when trying to assess the extent of poverty.
▪ The research attempts to assess the nature and extent of black progress in recent years in light of these issues.
▪ He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power.
▪ It's too early to assess the full extent of the damage.
▪ Nor need the courts assess the extent to which such harms are measurable against any standard of consequential morality.
▪ At least two separate industries will be examined, to assess to what extent the results may be generalized.
▪ Even more difficult to assess is the extent to which and in what ways religion might be important to people.
▪ Fourth, to assess to the extent to which estate agents have an impact on the housing market.
impact
▪ Research there is assessing the impact on breadmaking quality.
▪ Finally, it assesses the impact of party government in Britain in the light of the Thatcher record.
▪ Furthermore, assess the impact of their cash-flow practices on your own relationship with customers and suppliers alike.
▪ The project assesses the impact of monetary policy on the changing structure of the banking industry on both prices and incomes.
▪ One of the most difficult areas to assess is the impact on those who are staying outside.
▪ Its aim was to examine scientific evidence on climate change, assess environmental and socio-economic impacts and formulate realistic response strategies.
▪ To assess the impact on education, we turn to some specific cases.
▪ The report was commissioned from scientists in five countries in order to assess the impact of dramatic reductions in carbon emissions.
income
▪ In effect it appears that the pension has been assessed both as income and capital.
▪ The taxpayer is assessed on the income arising to the settlement on a remittance basis.
▪ This represents an attempt to assess a level of income below which it is impossible to ensure survival.
▪ This has led to proposals that the redistributive impact be assessed in terms of lifetime income.
level
▪ Scientists are particularly interested in observing the thawing and freezing of the polar icecaps in order to assess changes in sea level.
▪ All of the attainment targets can be assessed at various levels, with corresponding programmes of study leading towards them.
▪ Some Sharp models track the progress of the food as it cooks by assessing the moisture level.
▪ This represents an attempt to assess a level of income below which it is impossible to ensure survival.
▪ A light meter can be used to assess the level of lighting present.
▪ The profile format caters for 17 specific language skill areas, which can be assessed at 5 levels.
method
▪ The supplementary method of assessing a Grand Prix star's chances is to rate his amatory performance.
▪ QALYs are a method of assessing the health benefits of a given procedure against the resources used to achieve it.
▪ There is no simple method to assess proliferation in single gastric crypts.
▪ Task Analysis A method for identifying and assessing the tasks which humans perform when they interact with a system.
▪ Lastly, the Subjective Tests Group is defining a method of assessing the quality of the coded information.
▪ The taxation procedure is a method of assessing a reasonable rate of overall payment for the task carried out.
▪ Morphological measurements and enzyme activities carried out on intestinal mucosa are another good method of assessing dietary nitrogen quality.
▪ Irvine and Martin have themselves developed a method of assessing the performance of some of Britain's most expensive scientific investments.
need
▪ I felt they wanted me to assess people's needs when that was their responsibility.
▪ Surveys of All Employees DuPont has systematically assessed the needs of its work force for more than ten years.
▪ Each review group was asked to assess current and future needs for each specialty.
▪ The upshot of the interview is that Jimmy be referred for a psychiatric evaluation in order to assess the need for medication.
▪ At your request, we will assess your energy needs and recommend or design a specific solution to meet your precise requirements.
▪ Much of it was paper work, assessing a need and arguing its cause.
▪ These councils would assess local needs, contribute to local service plans within the overall strategic plan and monitor local service provision.
▪ Some countries conduct all foreign trade through state corporations which assess needs according to their current economic development programmes.
patient
▪ The colon was not assessed in nine patients in whom the diagnosis of malignant disease elsewhere had been obtained by other tests.
▪ It is expected, in its first year, to assess more than 1,500 patients.
▪ A professional hypnotherapist should assess each potential patient carefully and advise against treatment where necessary.
▪ It is in this context that we need top assess Working for patients.
▪ To assess whether patients are at risk for any reason and to minimize any risk to them. 4.
▪ Newson-Smith and Hirsch concluded that social workers could safely and reliably assess attempted suicide patients.
▪ Clinical response was assessed continuously until the patient switched off.
performance
▪ So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989.
▪ Every year, he reviews the staff and then asks two aides to assess his performance.
▪ Voters are interested in assessing the performance of their elected representatives.
▪ In this chapter we analyse the nationalized industries, explain how they have been run, and assess their performance.
▪ In addition, as argued above, there are great difficulties in assessing the performance of public enterprises.
▪ The children could use a standard proforma to assess their own performance against the relevant parts of the attainment targets.
▪ Who assesses our performance, and how much store do we set by their judgement?
potential
▪ Economic historians have been more interested in assessing the outcome or potential of his policies than their origins.
▪ This question of source rocks is the main unproven factor in assessing the hydrocarbon potential of south Antrim.
▪ The adoption of a sequential approach to assessing the development potential of sites and the redevelopment potential of existing buildings.
▪ Personal disinterest in a programme content will help your objectivity in assessing its potential for your public relations purposes.
progress
▪ Try to assess your progress daily in this way.
▪ However, they also had a nearer-term way of assessing their progress as a team.
▪ How did its authors decide that the past 30 years is the right period for assessing progress?
▪ The tape measure is a much more accurate way of assessing your progress.
▪ Above all they don't test, assess or measure progress in any way.
▪ In addition to departmental seminars, there are courses in research methodology and practice and regular meetings with a review board to assess progress.
▪ Recording and assessing the child's progress Already many schools are working on various ways of recording attainment targets for individual children.
▪ They said teachers were poor in assessing National Curriculum progress and had low expectations of the pupils.
project
▪ Essentially the project will assess the question of whether a competitive advantage can be sustained through planned technological change.
▪ The project assesses the impact of monetary policy on the changing structure of the banking industry on both prices and incomes.
▪ In addition, before implementing a project the company should set targets against which the project can be assessed.
▪ It is in the light of these aims and objectives, both official and unofficial, that the project must now be assessed.
▪ This project is to assess whether sufficient material exists to enable a more substantial research project to be undertaken.
▪ Our pilot project aims to assess the feasibility of identifying people at risk, nothing more.
▪ The feasibility project investigates and assesses procedures necessary for putting the manuscript accounts on to microcomputer and then mainframe computer.
▪ A further unpublished project attempted to assess the anxiety characteristics of the type of client who benefited most from the treatment package.
quality
▪ I look forward to the day when a statistically perfect model is available for assessing the quality of cardiac surgical care.
▪ It explains how to recognize particular types of rug, and how to assess quality and value for money.
▪ Lastly, the Subjective Tests Group is defining a method of assessing the quality of the coded information.
▪ This problem is likely to be encountered often by decision makers wishing to assess the methodological quality of published studies.
▪ It is also difficult to assess the quality of husband/wife relationships.
▪ Morphological measurements and enzyme activities carried out on intestinal mucosa are another good method of assessing dietary nitrogen quality.
research
▪ The research attempts to assess the nature and extent of black progress in recent years in light of these issues.
▪ The research also assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the area for electronics firms.
▪ Some empirical evidence is available as regards the first of these; the present research seeks to assess what role syntactic input plays.
▪ The quality of research is assessed by a thesis of publishable standard, working papers, seminar presentations and by vivavoce.
▪ A three-year research programme to assess the life-span characteristics and as-built performance of flat roofing systems in under way.
▪ In addition, the research will assess the way in which the economic expectations of elderly people have changed over the twentieth century.
▪ The research will assess the management and effectiveness of one local enterprise agency based in Colchester, Essex.
risk
▪ Unfortunately, for bankers assessing country risk, this ratio has two major deficiencies.
▪ Some of these duties, such as the duty to assess risks, also apply to the self-employed.
▪ Its new scheme will assess the credit risk of new borrowers according to their age, marital status and number of children.
▪ Clean technology - assessing the benefits Quantitative risk assessment has been employed to aid safety management decisions for many years.
▪ Underwriters previously used a laborious manual system to assess risk, cross-referencing data from maps, spreadsheets and technical data.
▪ Time and Value Risks Two aspects to be considered when assessing the risks of giving credit are how much and how long.
▪ Industrial hazards and risk assessment Once hazards have been identified there may follow efforts to assess the hazard risk.
significance
▪ It is always difficult to assess the political significance of an individual leader.
▪ So we shall briefly stand back and assess its significance.
▪ Departures from the null hypothesis were assessed at the 5% significance level.
▪ This present study was not designed to assess the biological significance of endotoxaemia, however, nor the treatment of colitis.
▪ Focusing on class situation enabled us to assess the significance of the challenge that the information specialists might pose to managerial authority.
situation
▪ Ballater was trying to assess the situation objectively.
▪ The brigade commander was able to assess the situation and take proper courses of action.
▪ The only way to decide is to assess the situation in each case in terms of the cat's quality of life.
▪ The officers, Brown said, talk to the person to assess the situation.
▪ London &038; Country Mortgages will assist over the phone and use a redemption penalty calculator to assess the situation.
▪ I had shot off the handle before assessing the situation properly.
▪ In fact it is just as misleading to ignore the packaging and expect some one to assess the new situation without any help.
▪ You have to assess the situation in light of everybody who is out there.
student
▪ The effect of treatment on laboratory and anthropometric measurements was assessed by the paired Student t test.
▪ How might you assess whether most college students are politically active?
▪ The written examinations would provide the opportunity for assessing whether the student had acquired a sufficiently analytical approach to the subject.
▪ Connecticut is assessing high school students in math and science based on team-oriented projects that take up to a semester of work.
▪ A criterion referenced marking schedule is used to assess the students at each clinical station.
▪ By the time students complete the first grade, it is fairly easy to assess students' basic academic skills.
▪ In Delaware, employers are helping assess student prod products that combine academic research with its real-world applications.
▪ In fact; a test may be the weakest way to assess what a student has learned.
study
▪ Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives.
▪ There is no record that the county ordered a traffic study to assess alleged traffic hazards.
▪ The above studies have attempted to assess the presence of circulating platelet aggregates.
▪ Previous studies have assessed the amenity role of countryside open-spaces using separate ecological, landscape and recreational criteria.
▪ The results of the study are still being assessed by Wirral Council's engineers.
▪ This study aimed to assess the usefulness of endosonography in the surveillance of these patients.
▪ The National Cancer Institute was sponsoring more than 30 studies to assess the role of certain nutrients, he said.
▪ Questions designed to evaluate the educational objectives of the projects were derived from other studies assessing self esteem and locus of control.
tax
▪ Each sub-contractor holding a certificate will subsequently be assessed for tax and pay the Inland Revenue direct.
▪ The property they own has an assessed valuation for tax purposes of $ 1. 6 billion.
▪ The plaintiff was assessed to corporation tax for accounting periods covering the years 1977 to 1985.
▪ The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly.
▪ Both of these issues have a prominent part to play in assessing the impact of taxes on different groups.
▪ Since the change to independent taxation in April 1990, husband and wife are assessed separately for tax.
▪ Any excess rental over £3,250 will be assessed for tax in the normal way.
▪ First, it would be necessary to monitor the quantity of pollution of each firm in order to assess its tax liability.
test
▪ It is therefore in many ways an ideal empirical test bed for assessing the validity of Pahl's classification in the 1980s.
▪ One month after completing this treatment, the C-urea breath test was repeated to assess eradication of the infection.
▪ This month's Profi/Trekker/PF test assesses whether reality matches image.
▪ Moreover, the assumption that such differences are inherent has encouraged the development and use of standardised tests to assess child development.
▪ One month after completion of this treatment their C-urea breath test was repeated to assess the H pylori state.
▪ But the industry is rejecting growing calls for legislation to ban the use of gene test results in assessing cover.
value
▪ She said she knew of no other way to assess the value of a piece.
▪ Also, there is a need on the part of decision makers to assess the relative value for money from competing health care interventions.
▪ A business with a similar assessed value faced a $ 100 increase.
▪ It explains how to recognize particular types of rug, and how to assess quality and value for money.
▪ Passage of the bond measure would place a tax on property based upon its assessed value.
▪ They appoint Visiting Groups within disciplines to assess the value of particular scientific research programmes and groups of workers.
▪ Decision makers need to assess the relative value for money of competing health care interventions.
work
▪ The start of work was pushed back until the New Year while the client assessed tenders.
▪ Last year I examined the way in which bone mass screening had been assessed in published work.
▪ So far only a preliminary amount of work has been carried out in order to assess the restoration work required.
▪ The standard of provision would also be assessed by the Social Work Services Inspectorate.
▪ A few schemes assessed or intended to assess, practical work.
▪ The course is assessed by means of project work and a written examination.
▪ You should be able to assess this work and remember names as you never know when you might need them.
▪ The ability of the teams to preserve space for the development role could not be assessed unless their work was closely monitored.
■ VERB
design
▪ Three of the questions in the Hull survey were designed to assess how well known these ideas have become.
▪ This present study was not designed to assess the biological significance of endotoxaemia, however, nor the treatment of colitis.
▪ A monitoring programme is designed to assess the rate of leaching in inorganic ions and hydrocarbons from the deposit.
help
▪ It may be that your child has chemical sensitivities - reading Chapter Nine should help you to assess this possibility.
▪ However, even disintegrated mud brick can help to assess rebuilding phases in Penivian villages or Near Eastern tells.
▪ In Delaware, employers are helping assess student prod products that combine academic research with its real-world applications.
▪ Workstart is an experimental programme to help us assess what forms of wage subsidy work best.
▪ These can help interviewers assess personality and give a clearer picture of the interviewee's strengths and weaknesses.
▪ The doctor had helped assess the problem because she had a good relationship with her patient and had documented all her injuries.
▪ This prospectus is designed to help you to assess the practical possibilities for study at Edinburgh.
try
▪ Ballater was trying to assess the situation objectively.
▪ Both the other candidates have been feverishly trying to assess what damage he has caused them.
▪ Another problem is that of trying to assess performance when there may be no tangible product to measure.
▪ Another difficulty arises when trying to assess how far different media may be taken as propositional.
▪ This will become important in the final chapter, when we try to assess the Presocratics on their own terms.
▪ It is therefore very important to try and assess the more enduring changes shown in Figure 8.4, and Table 8.4.
▪ On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily.
▪ His eyes seemed to be trying to assess how much he knew.
use
▪ Registered images are used to assess the degree of change that has occurred during the time-period represented by the two images.
▪ If properly appreciated, and seen as instruction, the empirical can be used to assess theoretical and conceptual formulations.
▪ The task originally used by Piaget to assess knowledge of seriation of length is a simple one.
▪ A modified Delphi technique was used in assessing candidate items.
▪ Payback period analysis is frequently used in assessing the merits of energy conservation investments.
▪ Projects can be used to assess a wide range of cognitive and practical competences.
▪ In terms of the features which are used to assess class most Shetlanders seem to recognise that they lag behind.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He has written a guidebook that assesses the quality of Californian hotels.
▪ I took the ring to a jeweller to have its value assessed.
▪ Psychologists will assess the child's behavior.
▪ The booklet aims to help parents assess recent educational changes.
▪ The committee will continue to assess how we can improve.
▪ The total value of the paintings is assessed at $20 million.
▪ This computer program will assess how much is spent on each student within the school.
▪ This test provides an excellent way of assessing students' progress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For these reasons the functional significance of these observations is difficult to assess.
▪ Francis Urquhart is more difficult to assess.
▪ High Commissioner for Refugees visit the detention center twice a week to assess those requests.
▪ Rates were locally assessed and the amounts payable varied considerably from place to place.
▪ Scientists are particularly interested in observing the thawing and freezing of the polar icecaps in order to assess changes in sea level.
▪ The problems of assessing such links are, of course, huge, but there is scope for a contribution.
▪ The use of rose bengal dye was the first attempt at assessing liver function through dye excretion.
▪ Workstart is an experimental programme to help us assess what forms of wage subsidy work best.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assess
Assess \As*sess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Assessing.] [OF. assesser to regulate, settle, LL. assessare to value for taxation, fr. L. assidere, supine as if assessum, to sit by, esp. of judges in a court, in LL. to assess, tax. Cf. Assize, v., Cess.]
To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.
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.
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.
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To fix or determine the rate or amount of.
This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act.
--Blackstone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
assess
early 15c., "to fix the amount (of a tax, fine, etc.)," from Anglo-French assesser, from Medieval Latin assessare "fix a tax upon," originally frequentative of Latin assessus "a sitting by," past participle of assidere "to sit beside" (and thus to assist in the office of a judge), from ad- "to" (see ad-) + sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). One of the judge's assistant's jobs was to fix the amount of a fine or tax. Meaning "to estimate the value of property for the purpose of taxing it" is from 1809; transferred sense of "to judge the value of a person, idea, etc." is from 1934. Related: Assessed; assessing.
Wiktionary
assess
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate 2 (context transitive English) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction. 3 (context transitive English) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.
WordNet
assess
v. place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional" [syn: measure, evaluate, valuate, appraise, value]
charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine
set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) [syn: tax]
estimate the value of (property) for taxation; "Our house hasn't been assessed in years"
Usage examples of "assess".
Silius told us his compensation as the accuser was assessed at a million and a quarter sesterces.
The Senate and the president could begin by jointly appointing a nonpartisan commission to gather the names of the two dozen or so most distinguished lawyers and judges in the nation, assessed by peer review under the broadest criterion of greatness, without regard to party affiliation, race, gender, ideology, or other such factors.
The additional costs of the educational proposals shown in the appendix to your White Paper are considerable, and no doubt this particular aspect will be assessed in relation to the various other parts of your programme.
States through which these cars ran, the company would be assessed upon the whole value of its capital stock, and no more.
In this case a North Carolina tax was assessed on the income of a New York corporation, which bought leather, manufactured it in North Carolina, and sold its products at wholesale and retail in New York.
In contrast, the additional income tax imposed when a fraudulent return is filed, was found to be a civil sanction designed to protect the revenue, which might be assessed after acquittal of the defendant for the same fraud.
Shares owned by nonresident shareholders in a domestic corporation, the tax being assessed on the basis of corporate assets and payable by the corporation either out of its general fund or by collection from the shareholder.
Statutes and ordinances providing for the paving and grading of streets, the cost thereof to be assessed on the front foot rule, do not, by their failure to provide for a hearing or review of assessments, generally deprive a complaining owner of property without due process of law.
State tribunal which prevents a recovery of taxes imposed in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States by invoking a State law limiting suits to recover taxes alleged to have been assessed illegally to taxes paid at the time and in the manner provided by said law.
Among several admissible modes is that of causing the amount to be assessed by viewers, or by a jury, generally without a hearing, but subject to the right of the owner to appeal for a judicial review thereof at which a trial on the evidence may be had.
Similarly, to deter careless destruction of human life, a State by law may allow punitive damages to be assessed in actions against employers for deaths caused by the negligence of their employees.
A property tax on motor vehicles used in operating a stage line that makes constant and unusual use of the highways may be measured by gross receipts and be assessed at a higher rate than taxes on property not so employed.
Likewise, the committing to a board of county supervisors of authority to determine, without notice or hearing, when repairs to an existing drainage system are necessary cannot be said to deny due process of law to landowners in the district, who, by statutory requirement, are assessed for the cost thereof in proportion to the original assessments.
Wythypol to appear at its next meeting, and to take up office, or else take the oath, or pay such fine as should be assessed by the mayor, aldermen and common council.
Act for levying the necessary subsidy ordained that every alien made a denizen should be rated like a native, but that aliens who had not become denizens should be assessed at double the amount at which natives were assessed.