Plural of appraisal; formal assessments or evaluations of the value or quality of something.
From appraisal, which comes from appraise (from Old French aprisier, to set a price or value). The plural form marks multiple instances of evaluation.
Most people know appraisals from work—your annual performance review is a manager's appraisal of you. But appraisals happen constantly: when a realtor values a house, when an insurance company assesses damage, when a critic reviews art.
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