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{
"term": "assess",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "assess",
"heSheIt": "assesses"
},
"pastSimple": "assessed",
"pastParticiple": "assessed",
"ingForm": "assessing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make a judgement about the nature or quality of somebody/something",
"sensetop": "assess somebody/somethingassess somebody/something as somethingassess whether, how, etc…",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Accurately assessing environmental impacts is very complex.",
"contextForm": "assess somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "to assess a patient’s needs"
},
{
"text": "It's difficult to assess the effects of these changes."
},
{
"text": "Interviews allow you to assess the suitability of candidates."
},
{
"text": "She engaged a safety consultant to assess the risks."
},
{
"text": "Quality of life was assessed using a questionnaire."
},
{
"text": "The young men were assessed as either safe or unsafe drivers.",
"contextForm": "assess somebody/something as something"
},
{
"text": "I'd assess your chances as low."
},
{
"text": "The committee assesses whether a building is worth preserving.",
"contextForm": "assess whether, how, etc…"
},
{
"text": "We are trying to assess how well the system works."
},
{
"text": "She carefully assessed the situation."
},
{
"text": "The new patient is assessed by the nursing staff."
},
{
"text": "The company has put great effort into assessing the needs of its customers."
},
{
"text": "The national curriculum involves assessing pupils at ages 7, 11, 14 and 16."
},
{
"text": "The tests are used to assess individual students' ability and knowledge."
},
{
"text": "The studies were independently assessed by several researchers."
},
{
"text": "She decided to get her daughter assessed for dyslexia."
},
{
"text": "A mountain guide is trained and assessed on five gruelling courses."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Education"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["fully", "accurately", "correctly"],
"verb + assess": ["attempt to", "try to", "help to"],
"preposition": ["for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to calculate the amount or value of something",
"sensetop": "assess somethingassess something at something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They have assessed the amount of compensation to be paid.",
"contextForm": "assess something"
},
{
"text": "Damage to the building was assessed at £40 000.",
"contextForm": "assess something at something"
},
{
"text": "The Inland Revenue assessed the value of the paintings at £8 million."
},
{
"text": "It is very difficult to assess accurately the costs of corporate crime."
},
{
"text": "The legal costs have been assessed at $75 000."
},
{
"text": "It is difficult to assess the building's value properly without seeing it."
}
],
"synonyms": "estimate",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["accurately", "correctly", "properly"],
"verb + assess": ["attempt to", "try to", "be difficult to"],
"preposition": ["at"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈses/",
"audio": "as/assess/assess__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪz/",
"audio": "as/assess/assesses__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsest/",
"audio": "as/assess/assessed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪŋ/",
"audio": "as/assess/assessing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈses/",
"audio": "as/assess/assess__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪz/",
"audio": "as/assess/assesses__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsest/",
"audio": "as/assess/assessed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪŋ/",
"audio": "as/assess/assessing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French assesser, based on Latin assidere ‘sit by’ (in medieval Latin ‘levy tax’), from ad- ‘to, at’ + sedere ‘sit’. Compare with assizes."
}