assets
- noun
- /ˈæsɛts/
:
activos
- Investors were interested in learning about the company's assets, including its real estate and equipment.
Your shoes are a tradable asset as in Nikes?
- Your shoes are a tradable asset as in Nikes?
- Usually they trade at what's known as net asset value or NAV.
- That is an asset that you can sell.
- Like they must sell the asset and recoup the investors.
- They're calling liabilities assets and the cash is flowing out.
- What that means is their assets are paying for their expenses.
- Why do people get happy when you're buying assets at tops of markets?
- He bought up Scots Rail assets at rock bottom prices, too.
- We use many different assets from all kinds of places.
- So assets that can't be printed, assets that cannot be seized.
- But you took all the assets and I was stuck with this tax bill.
Examples
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That is an asset that you can sell.
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Usually they trade at what's known as net asset value or NAV.
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And so they now function as assets that produce cash flow.
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It's not fun when your assets go down on paper.
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And it's much harder when assets are worth so much more.
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We use many different assets from all kinds of places.
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What are your assets, health, wealth, time and youth.
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But the problem is that these assets are not homogeneous.
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You've got to have some, some assets, some property, right?
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So right now my risk weighted assets equals zero.
Synonyms
∞
1.4
Something that a person or group owns, for example land and buildings
507
1.3
A large amount of money and valuable things that a person or country owns
327
3.9
All the money, property, and debts a person owns when they die
255
3.9
Money or property that someone has
240
1.7
A thing that belongs to someone
157
3.3
The money and property a person or company has and manages
7
3.0
A thing you can touch that belongs to someone
3
4.1
Things a person owns, like clothes, money, and furniture
1
5.0
The things a person owns, especially material items
1
1.0
Things a person owns and can carry
Things like money or jewellery that are worth a lot to someone
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.6
Items a company can turn into cash within one year, like inventory or money owed to it
- Specialized
Money and things that can become cash quickly, like short-term investments or amounts customers owe
How Large
327
3.9
- Specialized
102
5.1
770
3.5
86
3.9
240
1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
assets = asset (transparent) = asset + s
Plural '-s' is a productive, regular English plural; the form and meaning are straightforward for learners.
Etymology
The word assets comes from the Latin root satis meaning 'enough' through Old French, the same root you see in satisfy. So an asset is something you own that is worth money or can be used to pay what you owe.