- a useful and desirable thing or quality: Organizational ability is an asset.
- a single item of ownership having exchange value: Our summer home is an asset we're not willing to sell.
- (in intelligence) a person followed or spied upon to obtain information: as a participant in an operation, an asset may be consenting, forced, as by blackmail, or unaware of being used: It was a catalog of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union.
- one of the media components that, taken together, comprise all of the elements of a video game, such as the environments, objects, character art and animation, and sound design: All of the game assets are downloaded to your hard drive during the install, so slow load times are local and indicate a problem with your drive.
- See entry at assets.
- anything valuable or useful
