The phrase "a practical asset" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is useful or beneficial in a practical sense, often in a business or financial context.
Example: "Investing in employee training is a practical asset that can lead to increased productivity and job satisfaction."
Alternatives: "a valuable resource" or "a useful tool".
For example, I was able to suggest that although the corporate jet might well be a practical asset for a busy executive, it may actually look somewhat ridiculous and perhaps perverse in a context of cost-cutting initiatives elsewhere a comment he took to heart.
In Mr Portman Mr Romney might see a practical asset in a White House where economic recovery and deficit-cutting will be at the top of the agenda.Moreover, Mr Portman comes from the vital swing state of Ohio, and veepologists in the media pay extravagant attention to electoral geography.
… If we lose the railways we shall not just have lost a valuable practical asset.
Our enthusiasm for understanding learning and teaching makes us an intellectual and practical asset for colleagues whose research dominates their time.
Because Beatty stops short of a conclusive ending, "Tuff" is ultimately a portrait of a promisingly blank slate, someone whose decisions are influenced by random events and fleeting alliances, someone whose intellect might not be his most practical asset and certainly is not all he needs to turn his life around.
Urban planning may forget to formulate an inventory and to build its own theoretical and practical assets.
A normalized Turkish-Israeli relationship would also open opportunities for cooperation against the Assad government, with the Turks taking the political and regional lead and the Israelis providing intelligence and additional practical assets.
In no time at all, the skills you learned in the lab will be transformed into practical assets you'll take with you as you move through the working world.
Apart from the manifold practical assets of these approaches, reviewed thoroughly elsewhere [ 4, 41, 42], the greatest conceptional advantage of DNA-taxonomy over morphological methods lies in the direct inheritance of the characters used for identification.
At a practical level, space assets are going to loom large in any reevaluations about protecting Japan's security.
Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma provides a practical framework that highlights for asset owners, consultants, and professional asset managers the fundamental risks of investing in emerging markets.
