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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
assess/əˈses/
verb evaluate or estimate the nature, value, or quality of.

■ set the value of a tax, fine, etc., for (a person or property) at a specified level.

– derivatives
assessable adjective,
assessment noun,
assessor noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. assesser, based on L. assidere ‘sit by’ (in med. L. ‘levy tax’), from ad- ‘to, at’ + sedere ‘sit’.



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