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.
(in intelligence) a person followed or spied upon to obtain information: as a participant in an operation, an asset may be consenting, forced, as by blackmail, or unaware of being used: It was a catalog of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union.Compare confidential informant.
assets,
items of ownership convertible into cash; total resources of a person or business, as cash, notes and accounts receivable, securities, inventories, goodwill, fixtures, machinery, or real estate (opposed to liabilities).
Accounting.the items detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to liabilities and capital.
all property available for the payment of debts, especially of a bankrupt or insolvent firm or person.
Law.property in the hands of an heir, executor, or administrator, that is sufficient to pay the debts or legacies of a deceased person.
Origin of asset
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”; see also assai1
A rising China can be a significant asset for the region and the world, and selfishly, for the United States.
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However, search bars are a valuable asset that can increase internal sessions and conversion.
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It helps establish your company as an entity, which in itself is a great asset to your SEO.
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At the same time, they have all but stopped lending money for the higher-end properties worth too much for the government to accept, suggesting that the banks are knowingly passing climate liabilities along to taxpayers as stranded assets.
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The emphasis has shifted away from obsessing over consistency of tone and protecting brand assets.
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First, his credentials: He did international mergers and acquisitions at Lazard, a financial and asset management firm.
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To be sure, visa restrictions and asset freezes have been announced targeting Putin cronies.
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McCain said he would not be impacted financially by being subject to a visa ban and asset freeze in the Russian Federation.
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Even Russian business leaders could be targets for asset freezes and visa bans.
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To a degree, then, the Bernanke years were ones in which asset inequality helped produce greater income inequality.
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In the social republic, the child as a future citizen is an asset of the state, not the property of its parents.
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I count Russia on neither side, but she is still a liability more than an asset to the Germans.
G. H. Q.|Frank Fox
The miserly miller considered Ruth Fielding a liability; she proved herself in time to be an asset.
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British Coal Measures are an asset which enables the country to keep industries going, but it is a wasting asset.
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The old doctor used to say my memory was an asset to the sanatorium.
Where There's A Will|Mary Roberts Rinehart
British Dictionary definitions for asset
asset
/ (ˈæsɛt) /
noun
anything valuable or usefulexperience is their main asset See also assets