Asset Definition
ăsĕt
assets
noun
assets
A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource.
Proved herself an asset to the company.
American Heritage
Anything owned that has exchange value.
Webster's New World
A valuable item that is owned.
American Heritage
A valuable or desirable thing to have.
Charm is your chief asset.
Webster's New World
A spy working in his or her own country and controlled by the enemy.
American Heritage
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pronoun
Initialism of Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians.
Wiktionary
Origin of Asset
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Back-formation from English assets sufficient goods to settle a testator's debts and legacies from Anglo-Norman asetz from asez enough from Vulgar Latin ad satis to sufficiency Latin ad to ad– Latin satis enough sā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez "enough".
From Wiktionary
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