- 1an expert in a particular subject who is asked by a court or other official group to give advice The government appointed independent assessors to review the viability of the remaining coal mines.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
- 2a person who calculates the value or cost of something or the amount of money to be paid an insurance/a tax assessor
- 3a person who judges how well someone has done in an exam, a competition, etc. Professors acted as external assessors of the exam results.
Check pronunciation: assessor