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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
asset/ˈaset/
▶noun
- 1 a useful or valuable thing or person.
- 2 (assets) property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and being available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
– origin C16 (in the pl. in the sense ‘sufficient estate to allow discharge of a will’): from Anglo-Norman Fr., from OFr. asez ‘enough’, based on L. ad ‘to’ + satis ‘enough’.
'assets' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquisition accounting
- arbitrage
- asset
- asset-stripping
- balance sheet
- billionaire
- broker
- broking
- cake
- call option
- capital
- card
- cash ratio
- contract note
- current assets
- deadweight
- dealer
- debenture
- deficit
- disposable
- disposal
- encumbrance
- fire sale
- fixed assets
- fixed capital
- fixed charge
- floating charge
- fortune
- forward
- freeze
- future
- holding
- illiquid
- liquid
- liquidate
- liquidity
- long
- Mareva injunction
- market
- market-maker
- millionaire
- multimillionaire
- near money
- obligate
- pool
- prenuptial agreement
- pro forma
- put option
- real account
- receivable
Forum discussions with the word(s) "assets" in the title:
"...clear the books of bad assets"
"Pool their assets"
a financial term for a type of assets
bankable assets
callipygian assets
Collect and manage assets
Cospecialised assets
Developmental Assets
drive greater value from assets
for one with her assets
Holding assets
liquid/fluid assets
man who has valuable assets, including
managerial assets
material assets
the stock of productive assets
"Pool their assets"
a financial term for a type of assets
bankable assets
callipygian assets
Collect and manage assets
Cospecialised assets
Developmental Assets
drive greater value from assets
for one with her assets
Holding assets
liquid/fluid assets
man who has valuable assets, including
managerial assets
material assets
the stock of productive assets
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