ASSET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asset mean? 

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

1. a useful or valuable quality

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A useful or valuable quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

asset; plus

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

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

resource (a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed)

advantage; vantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)

forte; long suit; metier; speciality; specialty; strength; strong point; strong suit (an asset of special worth or utility)

Antonym:

liability (the quality of being something that holds you back)

 Context examples 

To date, U.S. assets have discovered more than 98 percent of the known near-Earth objects.

(Asteroid discovered by NASA to pass Earth safely, NASA)

He was a huge man, the secretary, deep, broad, and tall, with a slow, heavy fashion of speech which had been his main asset in his political career.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above that, you know your most valuable asset is your reputation, and it follows that the work that bears your name be of a quality that rises above the rest.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So Hermann von Schmidt found it a goodly asset to have Martin for a brother-in-law, but in his heart of hearts he couldn't understand where it all came in.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For moral courage is a worthless asset on this little floating world. Leach, one of the men who were murdered, had moral courage to an unusual degree. So had the other man, Johnson. Not only did it not stand them in good stead, but it destroyed them. And so with me if I should exercise what little moral courage I may possess.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The study has exposed the need to engage society in deforestation controls with a new command and control framework for projects, a positive agenda of incentives to production efficiencies in existing deforested areas, and better support for protecting one's forest assets, as well as a larger role of business and banks in anti-deforestation controls.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A child born with Mercury retrograde tends to grow up to be more reflective and philosophical than others, so it can be an asset.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"There's the black suit," the pawnbroker, who knew his every asset, had answered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)