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ASSESSOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does assessor mean?
• ASSESSOR (noun)
The noun ASSESSOR has 1 sense:
1. an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it
Familiarity information: ASSESSOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
assessor; tax assessor
Hypernyms ("assessor" is a kind of...):
administrative official; bureaucrat (an official of a bureaucracy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assessor"):
lister (assessor who makes out the tax lists)
Derivation:
assess (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)
Context examples
EXAMPLE(S): subject, caregiver, investigator, outcomes assessor
(Interventional Study Protocol Version Blinded Role Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
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