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# assets

«assets» in Mova's school dictionary: **worth money, like a house, savings or machines** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (assets — plural; singular asset)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (money) Things a person or company owns that are worth money, like a house, savings or machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#m1)

2) A useful quality, skill or person: «She is an asset to the team». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#m2)

3) (computing) Files like pictures and sounds used in a game or app. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In money lessons, assets are what you own and debts are what you owe. In everyday talk, a kind pupil is «an asset to the class». In game design, assets are images and sounds. Phrases: «a great asset», «assets and debts».

### examples

- The company's assets include three factories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#x1)
- Her kindness is one of her best assets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#x2)
- He's a real asset to the football team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#x3)
- We added sound assets to our game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#x4)
- A house is a big asset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#x5)
- They had to sell their assets to pay the debt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/#x6)

### note

Countable. In maths/money: net worth = assets − debts (liabilities). Opposite in money: liabilities.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assets» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assets/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.