assessment

From assess +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛsmənt/

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assessment (countable and uncountable, plural assessments)

1. The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
2. An appraisal or evaluation.
   • 1989 January, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal‎^[1], volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 127:

     For every item taken into consideration, the question of its status in terms of history has to be raised; if a word can safely be taken to have been borrowed, it will require an assessment different from that appropriate for a native lexeme.

   • 2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 493:

     […] without a stemmatic approach, when this method allows clear results (and there are definitely cases where it does), it is simply impossible to provide any sound assessment of the value of the individual witnesses.