asset

IPA: ˈæsɛt

A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
(accounting) Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet.
(software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
(espionage) An intelligence asset.
(slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.
Initialism of Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians.

Examples of "asset" in Sentences

Your main asset is credibility, not money or size.
The Washington Post readers may not have known the term "asset protection" a week ago, but with this help from FICO, they'll figure it out soon.
The fifth round of the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF) in support of CMBS was held by the New York Fed just last Wednesday, to no avail for new CMBS issuance.
Note 14: Its main asset is the complete archive of EAM (the National Liberation Front), including the archives of the 'Mountain Government', which administered the liberated regions of Greece.
Then early in the Obama administration, regulators threw the real estate industry a bone, expanding a financial rescue program, the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF), to commercial-mortgage-backed securities, thereby muffling calls for a broader industry rescue.
Its main asset is the Ingka Holding group, which is conservatively financed and highly profitable: post-tax profits were €1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) — an impressive margin of nearly 11% on sales of €12.8 billion — in the year to August 31st 2004, the latest year for which the group has filed accounts.
The federal government has already been proactive in addressing the crisis, specifically concerning the inclusion of commercial real estate in the term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF) legislation and recent changes issued by Treasury to ease tax regulations governing real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs).