Appraise

  • 101gauge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. measure, templet, template; caliber, size. v. measure, estimate, judge, evaluate. See measurement, judgment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. measure, mark, check, scale, criterion, guideline, yardstick,… …

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  • 102judge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. & v. See lawsuit, judgment. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A legal official] Syn. justice, magistrate, chancellor, justice of the peace (JP), chief justice, associate justice, circuit judge, county judge,… …

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  • 103price — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Something demanded in exchange Nouns 1. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand; fare, hire, bill, tab, rental; overhead, carrying charge or cost; rent charge, rackrent,… …

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  • 104survey — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. view, examine, inspect, appraise; measure, lay out, plot. See vision, measurement. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. study, poll, critique, outline; see examination 1 , questionnaire , review 1 , 2 . v. 1.… …

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  • 105Price — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Price >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 price price amount cost expense prime cost charge figure Sgm: N 1 demand demand damage Sgm: N 1 fare fare hire …

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  • 106appreciate — [17] Like appraise, appreciate originally comes from the notion of setting a price on something. It comes from late Latin appretiāre, a compound verb formed from ad ‘to’ and pretium ‘price’. The neutral sense of ‘estimating worth’ was already… …

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  • 107appraisal — (n.) setting of a price, by 1784, American English, from APPRAISE (Cf. appraise) + AL (Cf. al) (2). Figurative sense, act of appraising (originally a term of literary criticism) is from 1817 …

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  • 108appraiser — (n.) early 15c., agent noun from APPRAISE (Cf. appraise) (v.) …

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  • 109appreciate — (v.) 1650s, to esteem or value highly, from L.L. appretiatus, pp. of appretiare to set a price to (see APPRAISE (Cf. appraise)). Meaning to rise in value (intransitive) first recorded 1789. Related: APPRECIATED (Cf. Appreciated); appreciating …

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  • 110apprize — (v.) occasional legalese form of APPRAISE (Cf. appraise), c.1400. Related: Apprized; apprizing …

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