special assessment

1. 1.

   an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the property

   Broadertax

Questions about special assessment

What does special assessment mean?

special assessment means "an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the property".

Is special assessment a common word?

special assessment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.