assessment

From assess +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛsmənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.