assets
Your assets are things you have that are valuable. Money, property, and skills are all assets.
When you talk about assets, you're talking about things that are good to have: they're worth something or they're useful. Money is certainly an asset. A house you own is an asset. If you're an employer, good employees are assets to the company. Personal qualities can be assets, too: if you're smart, brave, or even just good looking, consider it an asset.
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anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or companytypes:part, percentage, portion, shareassets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or grouptax basecollective value of taxable assetsreceivablesmoney that you currently expect to receive from notes or accountscrown jewelthe most desirable assets of a corporationdeep pocketa source of substantial wealth (usually plural)reserve assetscapital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demandsresourceavailable source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when neededcurrent assets, liquid assets, quick assetsassets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash)equitythe difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against itmaterial resourceassets in the form of material possessionscapitalwealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic valuehole cardany assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageouslycreditmoney available for a client to borrowoveragea surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectationsaccounts receivablea creditor's accounts of money owed to him; normally arise from the sale of products or servicesgainthe amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operatingcash surrender valuethe amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insuredcontributionan amount of money contributeddeductible(taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax)defalcationthe sum of money that is misappropriatedtranchea portion of something (especially money)dispensationa share that has been dispensed or distributeddolea share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably givenwaya portion of something divided into sharesrationa fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)allowancean amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)splita promised or claimed share of loot or moneyprofit sharinga system in which employees receive a share of the net profits of the businesscuta share of the profitspaper gold, special drawing rightsreserve assets in the International Monetary Fund; designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange marketfigurean amount of money expressed numericallylabor resourcesresources of available manpowergood will, goodwill(accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)stockthe capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)easy streetfinancial securityhedge, hedgingany technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices changeinsurancepromise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance companyoperating capitalcapital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvementsseed moneycapital needed to set up a new business or enterprisebankthe funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling gamespocketa supply of moneyMedicaid fundspublic funds used to pay for Medicaidmoney supplythe total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banksbread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenancethe financial means whereby one livesbacking, financial backing, financial support, funding, supportfinancial resources provided to make some project possibleways and meansresources available to meet expenses (especially legislation for raising revenue for a government)cheap moneycredit available at low rates of interestexport credita credit opened by an importer with a bank in an exporter's country to finance an export operationimport creditcredit opened by an importer at a bank in his own country upon which an exporter may drawbank line, credit line, line, line of credit, personal credit line, personal line of creditthe maximum credit that a customer is allowedcommercial creditcredit granted by a bank to a business concern for commercial purposesletter of credita document issued by a bank that guarantees the payment of a customer's draft; substitutes the bank's credit for the customer's creditpeanutsan insignificant sum of money; a trifling amountpursea sum of money offered as a prizepursea sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purseescrow fundsfunds held in escrowmatching fundsfunds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sourcestype of:possessionanything owned or possessed
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