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Appraisal

noun

The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth. Synonym: assessment.

A document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation). Synonyms: estimate, estimation.

An expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something.

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"Appraisal" Quotes from Famous Books

... natives residing in Manila who have not some employment are ordered to leave the city at three days' notice. The duties of the late Alvaro Cambrano, deceased, are to be assumed by others of the auditors. Provision is made for due inspection, appraisal, and sale of merchandise brought from China. All Indians belonging to the royal encomiendas must pay their tributes, even when they reside in Manila. The sum of three hundred pesos is appropriated to furnish and adorn the chapel of the Audiencia. The Chinese are forbidden ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume XI, 1599-1602 • Various

... fanciful yarn of his? For moments that, brief though they must have been, seemed intolerably protracted, he awaited her verdict in the extremest anxiety—not, however, neglecting to employ the respite thus afforded him to make another quick survey of the room and a second and more shrewd appraisal of its admirably ...

— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance

... Finch before I do," said Davy to Logan. "Will you please hand him this check for fifty which completes my obligations to him and tell him that I am having the cattle remaining on the ranch appraised. If the appraisal warrants, I will pay the balance of his bill and send ...

— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney

... task to keep a watchful eye on them. It was his habit to go to a town where a company was playing and not appear at the theater until the curtain had risen. The company had no warning of his coming, and he could make a good appraisal of their ...

— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... before, we know the aspirations of humankind, and share them. We have come to a new realization of our place in the world and a new appraisal of our Nation by the world. The unselfishness of these United States is a thing proven; our devotion to peace for ourselves and for the world is well established; our concern for preserved civilization has had its impassioned and heroic expression. There was ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... irregular—veins which stood out as though the skin were but thin parchment through which the blood might burst. A rare horse, rare in any country, doubly rare in this land of the small Spanish product, was the rating given to Pat by men trained to judge value at sight. And so widespread did this appraisal become, along trail, beside camp-fire, in bunk-house, that it was known throughout the length and breadth of the Territory, and beyond the Territory, that Judge Richards was the owner of a horse the like of which never had been seen south of ...

— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton

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