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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Assessment \As*sess"ment\, n. [LL. assessamentum.]
1. The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to
be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an
assessment of the members of a club.
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2. A valuation of property or profits of business, for the
purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of
the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an
assessment of property or an assessment on property.
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Note: An assessment is a valuation made by authorized persons
according to their discretion, as opposed to a sum
certain or determined by law. It is a valuation of the
property of those who are to pay the tax, for the
purpose of fixing the proportion which each man shall
pay. --Blackstone. Burrill.
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3. The specific sum levied or assessed.
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4. An apportionment of a subscription for stock into
successive installments; also, one of these installments
(in England termed a "call"). [U. S.]
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WordNet Assessment
n 1: the classification of someone or something with respect to
its worth [syn: appraisal]
2: an amount determined as payable; "the assessment for repairs
outraged the club's membership"
3: the market value set on assets
4: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or
event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
[syn: judgment, judgement]

Moby Dictionary
Irish dividend , account , allowance , analyzing , appraisal ,
appraisement , appraising , appreciation , apprizal , approximation ,
assessing , assize , assizement , bill , blackmail , blood money ,
calculation , categorization , cess , classification , computation ,
conscience money , contribution , correction , determination ,
direct tax , dual pricing , duty , emolument , estimate , estimation ,
evaluating , evaluation , evaluative criticism , factoring , fee ,
footing , gauging , graduated taxation , grouping , hush money ,
identification , imposition , impost , indirect tax , initiation fee ,
instrumentation , joint return , judgment , levy , measure ,
measurement , measuring , mensuration , metric system , mileage ,
opinion , price determination , pricing , progressive tax ,
quantification , quantization , ranking , rating , reckoning , retainer ,
retaining fee , scot , separate returns , sifting , sifting out ,
single tax , sorting , sorting out , stipend , stock , supertax , surtax ,
survey , surveying , tariff , tax , tax base , tax dodging , tax evasion ,
tax exemption , tax return , tax structure , tax withholding ,
tax-exempt status , taxable income , taxation , telemetering ,
telemetry , tithe , toll , triangulation , tribute , unit pricing ,
valuation , valuing , view , weighing , winnowing , withholding tax

ASSESSMENT. The making out a list of property, and fixing its valuation or appraisement; it is also applied to making out a list of persons, and appraising their several occupations, chiefly with a view of taxing the said persons and their property.