accumulation
IPA: ʌkjumjʌɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
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Examples of "accumulation" in Sentences
- The mode of accumulation is still uncertain.
- Also note the accumulation of the white residue.
- David Harvey calls this accumulation by dispossession.
- Eagle involvement in accumulation of the Taung child fauna.
- Calcids is the accumulation of calcium carbonate in the soil.
- I agree that the accumulation is largely a function of liquidity.
- When the stress accumulation is sufficient, then the resistance on the fault plane gives way and an earthquake occurs.
- Capital accumulation is the concentration of wealth in the hands of those whose basic comsumption needs have already been met.
- The accumulation is gradual and by the time you reach the height of battle you couldn't bear to leave Philomena's side for a minute.
- You can in fact be certain that private capital accumulation is a fundamental necessity in our system, while maintaining that (minor) redistribution is an ongoing requirement.
- "You can in fact be certain that private capital accumulation is a fundamental necessity in our system, while maintaining that (minor) redistribution is an ongoing requirement."
- For one, inventory accumulation is expected to contribute nearly a percentage point to the headline figure, which can only provide a short-term boost unless consumers increase spending enough to allow inventories to be drawn down.
- Even business professors, such as Harvard's Rakesh Khurana and Andy Zelleke, are trashing the prevailing corporate milieu wherein "little has been meaningfully valued by either executives or shareholders beyond the short-term accumulation of wealth."