assets

assets
assets (n.) 1530s, "sufficient estate," from Anglo-Fr. asetz (singular), from O.Fr. assez (11c.) "sufficiency, satisfaction; compensation," noun use of adverb meaning "enough, sufficiently; very much, a great deal," from V.L. *ad satis "to sufficiency," from L. ad- "to" (see AD- (Cf. ad-)) + satis "enough" (see SAD (Cf. 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.

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