Usually means: Evaluate or estimate quality, importance.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. assess: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. assess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. assess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. assess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. assess: Vocabulary.com
  6. Assess, assess: Wordnik
  7. assess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. assess: Wiktionary
  9. assess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. assess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. assess: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. assess: Dictionary.com
  13. assess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. assess: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Assess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Assess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. assess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. assess: Rhymezone
  19. assess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. assess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. assess: Free Dictionary
  22. assess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. assess: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. assess: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. assess: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. assess: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. assess: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. assess: Legal dictionary
  7. assess: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  2. assess: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. ASSESS: Acronym Finder
  3. assess: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assess: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See assessable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.
verb:  (transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.
verb:  (transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

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