All 7 Uses
assets
in
The Devil in the White City
(Edited)
- Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets.
p. 29.7 *assets = things of value
- The developer of a large Englewood parcel touted this asset in a catalog promoting the auction of two hundred residential lots called the Bates Subdivision: "To the business men of the Union Stock Yards it is particularly convenient and accessible, and free from the odors that are wafted by the prevailing winds to the most fashionable localities of the City."
p. 46.3asset = thing of value
- For every business that now refused to sell him goods, there were a dozen more that fawned over him and accepted his notes endorsed by H. S. Campbell or secured by the assets of the Warner Glass Bending Company.
p. 86.3assets = things of financial value
- In San Francisco a twenty-one-year-old entrepreneur named Sol Bloom realized that the Chicago fair would let him at last take advantage of an asset he had acquired in Paris two years earlier.
p. 133.8asset = thing of value
- The company made nothing and sold nothing: It existed to hold assets and provide a reference for anyone who became skeptical of Holmes's promissory notes.
p. 204.7assets = things of financial value
- Minnie was an asset now, an acquisition to be warehoused until needed, like cocooned prey.
p. 243.5asset = something of financial value
- The guardians of Minnie Williams had dispatched an attorney, William Capp, to look for Minnie and to protect the assets of her estate.
p. 324.1 *assets = things of financial value
Definitions:
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(1)
(assets as in: it's one of her best assets) a positive trait or thing of valuein various senses, including:
- a positive trait -- as in "Her confidence is an asset in the job search."
- something highly valued -- as in "The University is one of the city's greatest assets."
- soldiers or military equipment -- as in "They moved assets into the contested area."
- a spy -- as in "She was the United States' most valuable asset in China."
Assets are often contrasted to their opposite, liabilities. -
(2)
(assets as in: the company's assets & liabilities) things of financial value; or a listing of the cash value of things ownedAssets are often considered with their opposite, liabilities (debt and other financial obligations).
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)