1530s, "sufficient estate," from Anglo-French asetz (singular), from Old French assez (11c.) "sufficiency, satisfaction; compensation," noun use of adverb meaning "enough, sufficiently; very much, a great deal," from Vulgar Latin *ad satis "to sufficiency," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + satis "enough" (see sad).
Beginning as a legal term, "sufficient estate" (to satisfy debts and legacies), it passed into general use; meaning "any property that theoretically can be converted to ready money" is from 1580s. Asset is a 19c. artificial singular. Asset stripping attested from 1972.
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1. Under these laws, he said, Mr. Rice's assets could have been frozen.
他说根据这些法规，赖斯先生的资产可能已经被冻结了。
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2. Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets.
巴西称其宪法禁止个人占有能源资产。
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3. They must prove they own £250,000 of realisable assets.
他们必须证明拥有25万英镑的可变现财产。
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4. The company lists its current assets at $56.9 million.
该公司列明其流动资产为5,690万美元。
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5. The company closed down operations and began liquidating its assets in January.
