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asset

noun
/ˈæsɛt/CA/ˈæsɛt/US/ˈæset/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Early Medieval Latin ad Proto-Indo-European *seh₂-der. Early Medieval Latin satis Early Medieval Latin ad satis Old French asez Anglo-Norman asetzder. English assetsbf. English asset Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.

  1. derived from assez
  2. derived from asetz

Definitions

  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.

  2. Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.

  3. An intelligence asset.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. 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.
      • “Slave Alexi has nice assets.”
      • Muse studied Ida May's breasts for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the left one. “Good size. Firm. Yeah, you got some nice assets.”

    2. Initialism of Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians.

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Derived

asset-backed, asset-backed commercial paper, asset-backed security, asset flip, assetization, assetize, assetless, asset management, asset-strip, asset strip, asset stripping, asset-stripping, concealed asset, cryptoasset, cultural asset, cyberasset, hidden asset, hydroasset, idle asset, liquid asset, multiasset, net tangible assets, toxic asset, troubled asset

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at asset. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01asset02cash03liquid04inelastic05elections06election07option

A definitional loop anchored at asset. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at asset

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA