assessment

assessment

noun

Definition of ASSESSMENT

1

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

Synonyms assessment, duty, imposition, impost, levy

Related Words direct tax, personal tax; capitation, custom(s), excise, hidden tax, income tax, poll tax, property tax, sales tax, single tax, sin tax, tariff, toll, tribute, value-added tax, withholding tax; supertax, surcharge, surtax; death tax, estate tax, inheritance tax; flat tax, proportional tax

2

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

Synonyms appraisal, appraisement, assessment, estimate, evaluation, fix, judgment (or judgement), value judgment

Related Words aperçu, feeling, impression, notion, perception; confidence, faith, stock, trust; belief, conviction, mind, persuasion, sentiment, view; conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, surmise, theory

3

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>

Synonyms appraisal, appraisement, assessment, estimation, evaluation, reckoning, valuation

Related Words calculation, computation, measurement, mensuration; audit, check, checkup, examination, inspection, review, scan, scrutiny, survey; reassessment, transvaluation; overestimation, overevaluation; underestimation