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assess as in:  assess the situation

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    She is tasked with assessing the promise of new locations for stores.
    assessing = evaluating
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    And we can begin to assess whether any are missing.  (source)
    assess = consider and make a judgment of
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    I lean back against the trunk of my tree, one finger gingerly stroking the sandpaper surface of my tongue, as I assess my options.  (source)
    assess = consider something and make a judgment
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    Everett's biographer, W. L. Rusho, agrees with Christopher Ruess's assessment, arguing that Everett's "withdrawal from organized society, his disdain for worldly pleasures, and his signatures as NEMO in Davis Gulch, all strongly suggest that he closely identified with the Jules Verne character."  (source)
    assessment = judgment of something after consideration
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    He tries to assess the dimensions of his confinement.  (source)
    assess = consider and make a judgment of
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    The men who could walk rushed through the plane, assessing its condition.  (source)
    assessing = considering and judging
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    Having quickly assessed the situation, the general grabbed one of the geese by the throat.  (source)
    assessed = considered and judged
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    The information inside the restricted area was divided into two folders: Mission Status and Threat Assessments.†  (source)
    Assessments = judgments after consideration
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    He assesses the situation.†  (source)
    assesses = considers and judges
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    We systematically overassessed risk, made it a bad word.†  (source)
    overassessed = considered excessively
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overassessed means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    Herr Schuld gave me a written assessment of my work two months ago.  (source)
    assessment = judgment of something after consideration
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    He forces his feet to stay in one place, and takes a quick moment to assess their surroundings.  (source)
    assess = consider and make a judgment of
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    As she questioned me, she studied what I wore, assessing the fabric and appraising the cost of each item and making a judgment about my taste in general.  (source)
    assessing = considering and judging
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assess as in:  assess the monetary value

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    We're challenging the property tax assessment, but there's no challenging the property tax rate.
    assessment = value the property is said to have
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    In three months, Sergeant Major von Rumpel has traveled to Berlin and Stuttgart; he has assessed the value of a hundred confiscated rings, a dozen diamond bracelets, a Latvian cigarette case in which a lozenge of blue topaz twinkled; now, back in Paris, he has slept at the Grand Hotel for a week and sent forth his queries like birds.  (source)
    assessed = determined
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    When Ruth bought flowers, she had to assess their value in several ways to justify what she bought.  (source)
    assess = determine (monetary value)
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    The total assessed property has in this same period risen from eighty thousand dollars in 1875 to two hundred and forty thousand dollars in 1900.  (source)
    assessed = valuation of (for tax purposes)
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    The classrooms were now packed with recycled Army file cabinets filled with old tax records and property assessments.  (source)
    assessments = valuations
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    That the assessors were honest and discreet men under an oath to assess fairly and equitably, and that any advantage each of them might expect in lessening his own tax by augmenting that of the proprietaries was too trifling to induce them to perjure themselves.  (source)
    assess = determine the monetary value of something (for the purpose of taxation)
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    Besides this, the system of assessing property in the country districts of Georgia is somewhat antiquated and of uncertain statistical value; there are no assessors, and each man makes a sworn return to a tax-receiver.  (source)
    assessing = valuing for tax purposes
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    Land taxes are determined either by actual valuations or occasional assessments.  (source)
    assessments = instances of determining the monetary value of something
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    Land taxes are commonly laid in one of two modes, either by ACTUAL valuations, permanent or periodical, or by OCCASIONAL assessments, at the discretion, or according to the best judgment, of certain officers whose duty it is to make them.  (source)
    assessments = valuation for tax purposes
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assess as in:  assess a fee or penalty

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    The player was assessed a $10,000 fine.
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    The first box was labeled "Real Estate," and it was filled with deeds, canceled mortgages, appraisals, tax bills, tax assessments, paid invoices from contractors, copies of checks written by Seth, and closing statements from lawyers.  (source)
    assessments = charges
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    They're runnin' the assessment up on Tara sky high—higher than any in the County, I'll be bound.  (source)
    assessment = tax charge
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    To Henriet Cousin, master executor of the high works of justice in Paris, the sum of sixty sols parisis, to him assessed and ordained by monseigneur the provost of Paris, for having bought, by order of the said sieur the provost, a great broad sword, serving to execute and decapitate persons who are by justice condemned for their demerits, and he hath caused the same to be garnished with a sheath and with all things thereto appertaining; and hath likewise caused to be repointed and…  (source)
    assessed = charged
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    He is perfectly willing to pro rate the special assessment and there will be no difficulty in getting him to pay for title insurance.  (source)
    assessment = charge
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    After a full enquiry, they unanimously sign'd a report that they found the tax had been assess'd with perfect equity.  (source)
    assess'd = set
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    The diet possesses the general power of legislating for the empire; of making war and peace; contracting alliances; assessing quotas of troops and money; constructing fortresses; regulating coin; admitting new members; and subjecting disobedient members to the ban of the empire, by which the party is degraded from his sovereign rights and his possessions forfeited.  (source)
    assessing = charging
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    ...and then with an alteration in the mode of assessment, which I thought not for the better, but with an additional provision for lighting as well as paving the streets, which was a great improvement.  (source)
    assessment = charging a tax or fee
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    The extra tax assessment and the danger of losing Tara were matters Scarlett had to know about—and right away.  (source)
    assessment = charge
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    He is perfectly willing to pro rate the special assessment and strikes me, am dead sure there will be no difficulty in getting him to pay for title insurance, so now for heaven's sake let's get busy—  (source)
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