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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

avaliar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: avaliar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Appraise/əˈpreɪz/
verbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Precisamos avaliar o desempenho da equipe este ano."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To assess the value, quality, or condition of someone or something.

    "The manager took a moment to appraise the new employee's skills during the practical test."
  2. 2

    To officially set a price or monetary value on property or goods.

    "A certified expert was called in to appraise the antique painting before the auction."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'appraisen', from Old French 'apraisier', based on Latin 'appretiare' (to set a price on), from ad- (to) + pretium (price). Over centuries, the meaning broadened from strictly estimating monetary value to assessing the quality, value, or nature of anything comprehensively.

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