Accumulate

  • 21accumulate —    (of securities) do not sell    • Jargon of the financial analyst whose job is to promote activity among investors rather than pass them bad news:     Merrill Lynch described a trading statement for Pilkington as encouraging but downgraded its… …

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  • 22accumulate — ac•cu•mu•late [[t]əˈkyu myəˌleɪt[/t]] v. lat•ed, lat•ing 1) to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up; amass: to accumulate wealth[/ex] 2) to gather into a heap or mass • Etymology: 1520–30; < L accumulātus, ptp. of accumulāre=ac …

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  • 23accumulate — /ə kju:mjυleɪt/ verb to grow in quantity by being added to, or to get more of something over a period of time ● We allow dividends to accumulate in the fund …

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  • 24accumulate — see if you don’t speculate, you can’t accumulate …

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  • 25accumulate — [16] Accumulate was borrowed from Latin accumulāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ad , here meaning ‘in addition’, and cumulāre ‘heap up’ (the source of English cumulative). Cumulāre itself derived from cumulus ‘heap’; English adopted… …

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  • 26accumulate — Synonyms and related words: accouple, accrue, advance, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, appreciate, articulate, assemble, associate, backlog, balloon, band, batch, bloat, bond, boom, bracket, breed, bridge, bridge over, bring… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 27accumulate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. amass, gather; aggregate, collect, hoard, bank; pile up. See acquisition, assemblage, store.Ant., dissipate, squander. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To amass] Syn. gather, collect, amass, mass, hoard, get… …

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  • 28accumulate — ac|cu|mu|late [ ə kjumjə,leıt ] verb * transitive to get more and more of something over a period of time: Over the years, I had accumulated hundreds of books. a. intransitive to increase in quantity over a period of time: Medical evidence for… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 29accumulate — ac·cu·mu·late || É™ kjuːmjÊŠleɪt v. amass, gather, collect; be gathered, be collected …

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  • 30accumulate — [ə kju:mjʊleɪt] verb gather together a number or quantity of. ↘gradually increase; build up. Derivatives accumulation noun accumulative adjective Origin C15: from L. accumulat , accumulare heap up , from ad to + cumulus a heap …

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