ASSET Definition & Meaning

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noun

a useful and desirable thing or quality:
Organizational ability is an asset.
a single item of ownership having exchange value:
Our summer home is an asset we're not willing to sell.
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.
(in intelligence and information gathering) a person followed or spied upon to obtain information, who may be consenting, forced, or unaware of being used: Compare confidential informant ( def ).
They threatened to release a catalog of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union.
Military. a physical resource, such as a piece of equipment, vehicle, or building.
assets. assets ( def ).

asset

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noun

anything valuable or useful See also assets
experience is their main asset

asset

A possession that can be turned into cash to cover liabilities .

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Notes

Commonly, the term denotes anything of value.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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51�Թ� 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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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of asset¹

C19: back formation from assets

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"If people aren't dying to return at regular intervals to cinemas," says Hayes, "then you are holding an expensive set of assets that are hard to monetise".

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These tend to increase in value when stock markets fall as they are seen as a "safe haven" along with other assets such as gold.

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US President Donald Trump has granted TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law that requires the hugely popular video app to either sell its US assets or face a ban in the country.

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The group pools its considerable assets and lets Baffert buy horses that can win the Derby.

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With a Champions League quarter-final against Paris St-Germain crammed in between these games as well, it might be prudent to wait until the double before choosing your Villa assets.

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