{
    "term": "asset",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is valuable or useful to somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "asset to somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In his job, patience is an invaluable asset."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Being able to speak a foreign language is a major asset."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’m not sure if his forcefulness is an asset or a liability."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She'll be an asset to the team.",
                    "contextForm": "asset to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scotland's mountain areas are a natural asset to be proud of."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The teachers are the school's biggest asset."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tourist industry requires that the country's cultural assets be made more accessible."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Since his injury, Jones has become more of a liability than an asset to the team."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "considerable", "great"],
                "preposition": ["asset to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a thing of value, especially property, that a person or company owns, which can be used or sold to pay debts",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the net **asset value** of the company"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her assets include shares in the company and a house in France."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**asset sales/management**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "income from **fixed asset** investments"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**financial/capital assets**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to freeze a country’s assets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He transferred all his assets into his wife's name."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Liquid assets can be sold more quickly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Net assets have grown to $169 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The authorities have the power to seize the assets of convicted drug dealers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The business disposed of all its capital assets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has increased its UK assets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The courts can order a company's assets to be frozen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have hidden assets in banks around the world."
                },
                {
                    "text": "measures to prevent asset stripping"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["combined", "total", "gross"],
                "verb + asset": ["have", "hold", "own"],
                "asset + verb": ["be worth something", "appreciate", "grow"],
                "asset + noun": ["price", "value", "management"],
                "phrases": ["assets and liabilities"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæset/",
                "audio": "as/asset/asset__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæset/",
                "audio": "as/asset/asset__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the plural in the sense ‘sufficient estate to allow discharge of a will’): from an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French asez ‘enough’, based on Latin ad ‘to’ + satis ‘enough’."
}