assets
英 美
- n. an asset; a valuable person; a useful quality; [via] a property; a favourable condition (a) possession; an asset (資産の名詞複数形); property (of a shop, bankrupt 等); inheritance; a valuable person or thing.
英語の語源
- assets (n.)
- 1530s, "sufficient estate," from Anglo-French asetz (singular), from Old French assez (11c.) "sufficiency, satisfaction; compensation," noun use of adverb meaning "enough, sufficiently; very much, a great deal," from Vulgar Latin *ad satis "to sufficiency," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + satis "enough" (see sad).
Beginning as a legal term, "sufficient estate" (to satisfy debts and legacies), it passed into general use; meaning "any property that theoretically can be converted to ready money" is from 1580s. Asset is a 19c. artificial singular. Asset stripping attested from 1972.
例文
- 1. Under these laws，he said，Mr.Rice 's assets could have been frozen.
- 彼はこれらの法規によってライス氏の資産は凍結されている可能性があると言った。
- 2.Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets .
- ブラジルは、個人がエネルギー資産を占有することを憲法で禁止していると主張している。
- 3. They must prove they own ￡250,000 of realisable assets .
- 彼らは25万ポンドの現金化可能な財産を持っていることを証明しなければならない。
- 4.The company lists its current assets at$56.9 million.
- 同社は、流動資産が5690万ドルであることを明らかにした。
- 5.The company closed down operations and began liquidation its assets in January.
- 社は各業務を停止し、1月から資産の売却を開始した。
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