One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation. / (law) A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.

(prosody) Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.

The name of an assembly or gathering of similar things or people.

An association founded in 1924 to study the establishment of an international auxiliary language. In 1951, IALA presented Interlingua to the public by publishing the Interlingua-English Dictionary and Interlingua Grammar. Abbreviated IALA.

(manufacturing) A system of workers and machinery in which a product is assembled in a series of consecutive operations; typically the product is conveyed by a continuously moving belt

The collective replacement parts used to repair an automobile's worn down brakes.

(transitive) To discredit or condemn (someone or something, such as a position) by attacking someone or something associated.

Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to assume a given position.

(law, idiomatic) The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.

plural of writ of assistance