asset
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
asset (plural assets)
- A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
- My assets consist of stocks in companies that pay a dividend, and a few apartments that pay me rental income.
- January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech
- And when I look at this country’s incredible assets. Our scientists, our engineers, our world-leading universities, our armed forces. When I look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed, I know that we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success.
- Coordinate term: liability
- (accounting) Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet.
- Coordinate term: liability
- (software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
- (espionage) An intelligence asset.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.
- 2009, Kaitlynn Maguire and Margaret Tingley, Serendipitous Moments of Female Sensuality, p. 27:
- Perhaps it is simply common for wives to want their female friends to see their husband nude – especially if he has nice assets. Honestly, I also wanted to see the dick of Brian and Andrew.
- 2009, Cheyenne McCray, The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel, p. 189:
- “Slave Alexi has nice assets.”
- 2016, Deanna Chase, Spirits, Rock Stars, and a Midnight Chocolate Bar: Pyper Rayne, Book 2:
- Muse studied Ida May's breasts for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the left one. “Good size. Firm. Yeah, you got some nice assets.”
- 2009, Kaitlynn Maguire and Margaret Tingley, Serendipitous Moments of Female Sensuality, p. 27:
AntonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
Hyponyms of asset
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
something or someone of any value
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(accounting) any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet — See also translations at liability
any portion of one's property or effects considered of some value — See also translations at assets
software: any component, etc. that can be leveraged or reused
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DanishEdit
NounEdit
asset n
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English asset.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
asset m (invariable)
- asset (economic)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ asset in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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