{
    "term": "assess",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "assess",
            "heSheIt": "assesses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "assessed",
        "pastParticiple": "assessed",
        "ingForm": "assessing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to make a judgement about the nature or quality of somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "assess somebody/somethingassess somebody/something as somethingassess whether, how, etc…",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Accurately assessing environmental impacts is very complex.",
                    "contextForm": "assess somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to assess a patient’s needs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's difficult to assess the effects of these changes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Interviews allow you to assess the suitability of candidates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She engaged a safety consultant to assess the risks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Quality of life was assessed using a questionnaire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The young men were assessed as either safe or unsafe drivers.",
                    "contextForm": "assess somebody/something as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd assess your chances as low."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee assesses whether a building is worth preserving.",
                    "contextForm": "assess whether, how, etc…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are trying to assess how well the system works."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She carefully assessed the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new patient is assessed by the nursing staff."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has put great effort into assessing the needs of its customers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The national curriculum involves assessing pupils at ages 7, 11, 14 and 16."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tests are used to assess individual students' ability and knowledge."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The studies were independently assessed by several researchers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She decided to get her daughter assessed for dyslexia."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A mountain guide is trained and assessed on five gruelling courses."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fully", "accurately", "correctly"],
                "verb + assess": ["attempt to", "try to", "help to"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to calculate the amount or value of something",
            "sensetop": "assess somethingassess something at something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They have assessed the amount of compensation to be paid.",
                    "contextForm": "assess something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Damage to the building was assessed at £40 000.",
                    "contextForm": "assess something at something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Inland Revenue assessed the value of the paintings at £8 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is very difficult to assess accurately the costs of corporate crime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The legal costs have been assessed at $75 000."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is difficult to assess the building's value properly without seeing it."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "estimate",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["accurately", "correctly", "properly"],
                "verb + assess": ["attempt to", "try to", "be difficult to"],
                "preposition": ["at"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈses/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assess__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪz/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assesses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsest/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assessed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪŋ/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assessing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈses/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assess__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪz/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assesses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsest/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assessed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsesɪŋ/",
                "audio": "as/assess/assessing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French assesser, based on Latin assidere ‘sit by’ (in medieval Latin ‘levy tax’), from ad- ‘to, at’ + sedere ‘sit’. Compare with assizes."
}