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assessor

assessor

9 6.0
A local official who checks how much a house or land is worth for taxes
  • noun
  • /əˈsɛsər/
  • Formal
translation icon : tasador
  • In determining who will be exempt from local property taxes, the county assessor determines that all church property will be exempt.
  • a tax assessor
  • a county assessor

When you buy this property, the first person that has the right to assess fees and payments against it is your tax assessor.

Examples

  • The 1-acre parcel is currently exempt, according to the Fulton County Assessor's website.

    Blog text (2)

  • I'm the town assessor, so I guess I know as well as anybody the town has grown away.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • People wait in line at City Hall to see the assessor after getting their assessment letters in August.

    Blog text (26)

  • - First of all, you will meet with the assessor.

    Hellraiser: Judgment (2018)

  • Straight from the county assessor.

    The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)

  • Card he gave me said he was a deputy county assessor.

    Baby Face Nelson (1957)

  • That includes the Suffolk County tax assessor.

    No Hard Feelings (2023)

  • Let me pull the county assessor's report and try to figure out what happened.

    House of Deadly Secrets (2018)

  • Jeff, a timber assessor who would estimate our loss for tax purposes, stopped by on a snowy December.

    Academic text (2010)

  • To determine the property tax, the homeowner scheduled a meeting with the assessor from the county office.

Synonyms

appraiser
vsassessor
17 6.3

A person who says how much something is worth, like a house or painting

limits its role to assessing property value for taxation rather than authenticity
lister
vsassessor
  • Archaic
7 9.9

An official who records tax and property information for a town

performs valuation for taxation rather than mainly compiling administrative lists
evaluator
vsassessor
7 4.3

A person who judges how good or useful something is

specializes in official property value appraisal for tax purposes rather than general judging
tax assessor
vsassessor
  • Formal
3 6.0

An official who decides how much a house or land is worth for taxes

focuses on valuing property for taxation rather than other uses
valuer
vsassessor
  • UK
1 7.0

A person who checks how much property or goods are worth

concentrates on property valuation mainly for tax assessment
valuator
vsassessor
  • Specialized
7.7

A person who officially estimates how much something is worth for legal or financial reasons

is aimed at taxation valuation rather than broader legal or financial uses

Compounds

tax assessor
  • Formal
3 6.0

An official who decides how much a house or land is worth for taxes

How Official

tax assessor
  • Formal
3 6.0
assessor
  • Formal
9 6.0
appraiser
17 6.3
valuer
  • UK
1 7.0

Surface Forms

assessor singular
assessors plural

Morphology

assessor = assess (transparent) = assess + or

Productive agent-noun formation: 'assessor' easily derives from the verb 'assess' plus the agentive suffix '-or'.

Etymology

Assessor comes from the Latin assidere, which means 'to sit by'. In old times an assessor would 'sit beside' a judge or official to give an opinion, so today a county assessor is the official who sits with the facts to decide a property's value for tax.