🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

activo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: activo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Asset/ˈæs.ɛt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La empresa cuenta con importantes activos financieros."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A useful or valuable person, thing, or quality.

    "Her ability to speak multiple languages is a major asset to the company."
  2. 2

    Property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.

    "The corporation reported billions of dollars in total assets."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the early 16th-century Anglo-French legal phrase 'asez', meaning 'enough' (from Latin 'ad satis'). Over time, it evolved from signifying sufficient estate to satisfy creditors into denoting any item of economic, functional, or strategic value owned by an individual or organization.

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