assessment
Origin of assessment
1Other words from assessment
- mis·as·sess·ment, noun
- o·ver·as·sess·ment, noun
- pro·as·sess·ment, adjective
- re·as·sess·ment, noun
- self-as·sess·ment, noun
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How to use assessment in a sentence
Others include an assessment of a user’s heart rate, which can be obtained from a fitness tracker.
What’s your biological age? A new app promises to reveal it—and help you slow the aging process | Jeremy Kahn | September 17, 2020 | FortunePelosi questions why a vague assessment about China’s interest in the election was given equal billing to active efforts by Russia.
Trump’s most popular YouTube ad is a stew of manipulated video | Glenn Kessler, Meg Kelly | September 17, 2020 | Washington PostThe EU’s telecoms regulators decided in 2016 that the law’s terms technically allowed zero rating, as long as an assessment shows customers aren’t being steered away from services that compete with the bundled offer.
The EU’s top court just closed a major loophole in Europe’s net-neutrality rules | David Meyer | September 15, 2020 | FortuneMurphy “declined to modify any of the intelligence assessments based upon political rhetoric,” and told his bosses the intelligence would reflect reality, not what the president believes.
It would also require the FDA to revise the donor questionnaire based on an individual risk assessment of sexual behaviors upon which all donors are evaluated equally, without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.
Demings, Quigley introduce bill to repeal MSM blood donor restrictions | Michael K. Lavers | September 9, 2020 | Washington Blade
The assessment of the strikes comes in real-time video from the aircraft.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI hardly spoke to every patron, but there may have been some validity to his assessment.
RELATED: Wing Span: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (PHOTOS) Not everyone agreed with her assessment.
I Got Kicked Out Of The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show | Nico Hines | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI asked Christian publisher Crossway Books for their assessment of the manipulation of the best-seller lists.
How the Religious Right Scams Its Way Onto the New York Times Bestseller List | Warren Throckmorton | November 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTime and again, the author confuses chattering class dissatisfaction with an honest assessment of accomplishment.
If the losses exceed the premiums thus paid in advance, then an assessment is made on each member to cover the deficiency.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesWherefore they had done generous assessment work and had recorded their claim and built their monuments to mark its boundaries.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerYou owe the Eureka, as your share of the assessment, two dollars and forty cents.
The Varmint | Owen JohnsonApproaching the assessment-roll, we may estimate the Astor estate at one thirtieth of the entire city.
In spite of its origin, the “assessment” was the model for later taxation of property.
British Dictionary definitions for assessment
/ (əˈsɛsmənt) /
the act of assessing, esp (in Britain) the evaluation of a student's achievement on a course
an amount determined as payable
a valuation set on taxable property, income, etc
evaluation; estimation
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Cultural definitions for assessment
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