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assessment

/əˈsɛsmənt/noun3 syllables

Assessment means: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event.

Synonyms for assessment3

noun, as in the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

noun, as in the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

What does assessment mean?4

noun

1

the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event“they criticized my judgment of the contestants”

2

the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

3

an amount determined as payable“the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership”

4

the market value set on assets

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Assessment in a sentence

  • The assessment of communist countries is positive overall.Clavain
  • We turned to the experts to request their assessment of our chances of success.sundown
  • The company asked for assessment of the student before giving the job to him.ceviri_atolyesi
  • The art review sounded more like a panegyric than a neutral assessment.rul
  • Many experts admitted surprise at the new numbers but cautioned against overly gloomy assessments.Hybrid
  • Some experts provided a bleak assessment of Algeria's current situation.Amastan
  • I think that's an accurate assessment.CK
  • I think the assessment is unfair.CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of assessment

as a noun

plural
assessments