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[ verb ] place a value on; judge the worth of something

Examples

"I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"

Used in print

(William Gomberg, "Unions and the Anti-Trust Laws"...)

This escape from control has led to management 's evaluating the risk of occasional irrational prosecution as worth while .

(Saturday Review, 44: 15...)

Sample copies of new books are on display at headquarters , where librarians may evaluate them by themselves or in workshop groups .

(Rosemary Balckmon, "How Much Do You Tell When...)

This , for obvious reasons , makes their techniques superbly useful in studying the psychiatric interview , so useful , in_fact , that they have been successfully used to suggest ways to speed diagnosis and to evaluate the progress of therapy .

(Rhode Island Legislative Council. Research Report...)

Bids are evaluated by the Division of Purchases with the assistance of pool staff , and awards for the purchase of the automobiles are made to the lowest responsible bidders .

(Rhode Island Legislative Council. Research Report...)

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode_Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons : ( 1 ) local assessors , in_the_main , are not well paid and have inadequate office_staffs , ( 2 ) the numerous categories of_this component of personal_property make locating extremely difficult , and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property .

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