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noun
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: deaccession, deacquisition
noun
A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Agreement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Access; admittance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: deaccession
noun
the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rise to power
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: attainment
noun
the right to enter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: entree, access, admission, admittance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: right
Narrower terms: door
noun
agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: assenting
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agreement
noun
something added to what you already have
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: addition
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: acquisition
noun
(civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: property right
noun
a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: increase, increment, growth
verb
make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: record, enter, put down
History
Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
Across languages
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
