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asset

UK/ˈæsɛt/US/ˈæsɛt/

asset noun: a thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.

Noun

asset (plural assets)

  1. A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
    • My assets consist of stocks in companies that pay a dividend, and a few apartments that pay me rental income.
    • January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech
      And when I look at this country’s incredible assets. Our scientists, our engineers, our world-leading universities, our armed forces. When I look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed, I know that we can turn this opportunity into...
    1. Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet.
  2. Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
  3. An intelligence asset.
  4. (plural-normally, slang) A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.
    • Perhaps it is simply common for wives to want their female friends to see their husband nude – especially if he has nice assets. Honestly, I also wanted to see the dick of Brian and Andrew.2009, Kaitlynn Maguire, Margaret Tingley, Serendipitous Moments of Female Sensuality, page 27
    • “Slave Alexi has nice assets.”2009, Cheyenne McCray, The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel, page 189

Proper noun capitalized: ASSET

ASSET

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians.

asset meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

asset in Hindi

something or someone of any value
आस्ति āsti

asset in Urdu

اثاثہ

asset in Telugu

something or someone of any value
ఆస్థి āsthi

asset in Malayalam

any portion of one's property or effects considered of some value
സ്വത്ത് svattŭ
something or someone of any value
സ്വത്ത് svattŭ, ആസ്തി āsti
More languagesFewer languages
asset in Punjabi
ਸੰਪਤੀ
asset in Tagalog
ariin
asset in Indonesian
aktiva, harta, aset

Examples of asset in a sentence

  • Bequests and legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
  • No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
  • By realizing the company’s assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders’ investments.

All 40 example sentences with asset

Antonyms of asset

Forms of asset

pluralassets

Plural of asset: assets

Origin of asset

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.

Words formed from asset

Phrases with asset

4 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about asset

What does asset mean?
Asset means a thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
What is asset in Hindi?
Asset in Hindi is आस्ति (āsti). See Asset meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is asset?
Asset can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce asset?
Asset is pronounced /ˈæsɛt/ (UK).
What is the plural of asset?
The plural of asset is assets.

Words near asset in the dictionary

  1. assessorship
  2. assessorships
  3. assessory
  4. assessour
  5. assessours
  6. asset
  7. asset class
  8. asset classes
  9. asset flip
  10. asset flips
  11. asset management

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: asset (page history and authors); ASSET (page history and authors); asset (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); asset (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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