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 tax, duty, imposition, impost, levyRelated 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, estimation, estimate, evaluation, fix, judgment (or judgement), value judgmentRelated 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, estimate, estimation, evaluation, reckoning, valuationRelated Words calculation, computation, measurement, mensuration; audit, check, checkup, examination, inspection, review, scan, scrutiny, survey; reassessment, transvaluation; overestimation, overevaluation; underestimation