- a person or thing that is valuable or useful to somebody/something
- In his job, patience is an invaluable asset.
- Being able to speak a foreign language is a major asset.
- I’m not sure if his forcefulness is an asset or a liability.
- asset to somebody/something She'll be an asset to the team.
Extra Examples- Scotland's mountain areas are a natural asset to be proud of.
- The teachers are the school's biggest asset.
- The tourist industry requires that the country's cultural assets be made more accessible.
- Since his injury, Jones has become more of a liability than an asset to the team.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- considerable
- great
- …
- asset to
- [usually plural] a thing of value, especially property, that a person or company owns, which can be used or sold to pay debts
- the net asset value of the company
- Her assets include shares in the company and a house in France.
- asset sales/management
- income from fixed asset investments
- financial/capital assets
- to freeze a country’s assets
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyb2- He transferred all his assets into his wife's name.
- Liquid assets can be sold more quickly.
- Net assets have grown to $169 million.
- The authorities have the power to seize the assets of convicted drug dealers.
- The business disposed of all its capital assets.
- The company has increased its UK assets.
- The courts can order a company's assets to be frozen.
- They have hidden assets in banks around the world.
- measures to prevent asset stripping
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- combined
- total
- gross
- …
- have
- hold
- own
- …
- be worth something
- appreciate
- grow
- …
- price
- value
- management
- …
- assets and liabilities
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the plural in the sense ‘sufficient estate to allow discharge of a will’): from an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French asez ‘enough’, based on Latin ad ‘to’ + satis ‘enough’.
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