assets
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- anything of material value or usefulness
Word Origin
- assets (n.)
- 1530s, "sufficient estate," from Anglo-French asetz (singular), from Old French assez (11c.) "sufficiency, satisfaction; compensation," noun use of adverb meaning "enough, sufficiently; very much, a great deal," from Vulgar Latin *ad satis "to sufficiency," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + satis "enough" (see sad). Beginning as a legal term, "sufficient estate" (to satisfy debts and legacies), it passed into general use; meaning "any property that theoretically can be converted to ready money" is from 1580s. Asset is a 19c. artificial singular. Asset stripping attested from 1972.
Example
- 1. Index funds make up 28 % of industry assets .
- 2. Italy should also get more aggressive in selling off state-owned assets .
- 3. Their assets are bloated to an estimated 270 % of gdp .
- 4. But we have some really interesting core structural assets .
- 5. The majority of those assets seem to be coming from the big banks .