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assets

US // (ˈæsɛts) //

资产

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : accounting the property and claims against debtors that a business enterprise may apply to discharge its liabilities. Assets may be fixed, current, liquid, or intangible and are shown balanced against liabilitiesCompare liabilities
    • : law the property available to an executor or administrator for settlement of the debts and payment of legacies of the estate of a deceased or insolvent person
    • : any property owned by a person or firm

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Examples

  • The Patriot Act allows the Department of Justice to seize foreign bank assets in U.S. accounts.

  • Authorities have seized more than $250 million in assets from businesses across Rome.

  • However, since he was living at home, our income and assets disqualified him from SSI and Medicaid.

  • He was later sued by his lawyers in London for failing to pay $419,400 in counsel fees when his assets were frozen.

  • Just last week, a New Zealand court ruled he could no longer continue hiding his assets.

  • For, to do this is to reduce its assets or fund for paying its indebtedness, which the law will not permit to be done.

  • We found them paying full interest on the cost of construction, and sound assets of the country.

  • These assets do not include new legislative buildings or other public works.

  • Can you make out any schedule showing your exact assets and liabilities at the present time?

  • I started as the son of a broken-down nobleman, my material assets being a trumpery title.