Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club. 2. (n.) A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property. 3. (n.) The specific sum levied or assessed. 4. (n.) An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a call).

Multi-Version Concordance Assessment (1 Occurrence) 2 Kings 12:4 And Jehoash saith unto the priests, 'All the money of the sanctified things that is brought in to the house of Jehovah, the money of him who is passing over, each the money of his valuation, all the money that it goeth up on the heart of a man to bring in to the house of Jehovah, (See NAS RSV)