appraisal
pronunciation
How to pronounce appraisal in British English:
UK [əˈpreɪzl]
How to pronounce appraisal in American English:
US [əˈpreɪzl]
-
- Noun:
- the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
- a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)
Word Origin
- appraisal (n.)
- "setting of a price," by 1784, American English, from appraise + -al (2). Figurative sense, "act of appraising" (originally a term of literary criticism) is from 1817.
Example
- 1. Some of the examples are from detention slips or appraisal forms .
- 2. But behind the diplomatic niceties , the u.s. embassy in damascus had a vicious appraisal of their host government .
- 3. It 's a question of switching from an instinctive , partial appraisal to a more rounded and rational one .
- 4. Spiegel : the appraisal was prepared in march 2008 .
- 5. It would require homes to be registered , title to be clear and the appraisal of property values to be credible .