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assessment

/əˈsɛsmənt/

A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

The SBAR element in which you state your clinical impression and what you think is going on.

Assessment: I think she's developing sepsis; her NEWS is now seven.

Topic: Handover & SBAR in Medical English

Law noun

The formal determination by a tax authority of the amount of tax due from a taxpayer.

The taxpayer appealed the assessment on the ground that the profits had been overstated.

Topic: Tax law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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More medicine words: Handover & SBAR