n.
- a useful or valuable thing or person.
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(assets)
property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and being available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
Etymology
C16 (in the pl. in the sense ‘sufficient estate to allow discharge of a will’): from Anglo-Norman Fr., from OFr. asez ‘enough’, based on L. ad ‘to’ + satis ‘enough’.
