ASSETS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assets mean? 

• ASSETS (noun)
  The noun ASSETS has 1 sense:

1. anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company

  Familiarity information: ASSETS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSETS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("assets" is a kind of...):

possession (anything owned or possessed)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assets"):

investment; investment funds (money that is invested with an expectation of profit)

accounts receivable (a creditor's accounts of money owed to him; normally arise from the sale of products or services)

overage (a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations)

credit (money available for a client to borrow)

hole card (any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously)

cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource (assets in the form of money)

capital; working capital (assets available for use in the production of further assets)

capital (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)

material resource (assets in the form of material possessions)

protection; security (defense against financial failure; financial independence)

equity (the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it)

part; percentage; portion; share (assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group)

current assets; liquid assets; quick assets (assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash))

intangible; intangible asset (assets that are saleable though not material or physical)

resource (available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed)

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

reserve assets (capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands)

deep pockets ((plural) a source of substantial wealth)

crown jewel (the most desirable assets of a corporation)

receivables (money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts)

tax base (collective value of taxable assets)

 Context examples 

To date, U.S. assets have discovered more than 98 percent of the known near-Earth objects.

(Asteroid discovered by NASA to pass Earth safely, NASA)

The study has exposed the need to engage society in deforestation controls with a new command and control framework for projects, a positive agenda of incentives to production efficiencies in existing deforested areas, and better support for protecting one's forest assets, as well as a larger role of business and banks in anti-deforestation controls.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)