ASSESSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assessor mean? 

• ASSESSOR (noun)
  The noun ASSESSOR has 1 sense:

1. an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it

  Familiarity information: ASSESSOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSESSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

assessor; tax assessor

Hypernyms ("assessor" is a kind of...):

administrative official; bureaucrat (an official of a bureaucracy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assessor"):

lister (assessor who makes out the tax lists)

Derivation:

assess (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): subject, caregiver, investigator, outcomes assessor

(Interventional Study Protocol Version Blinded Role Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)