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accumulation | Business English

accumulation
noun[ C or U ]
uk /əˌkjuːmjəˈleɪʃən/us
the process of gradually increasing in amount, or the increased amount:
The document warned of "an accumulation of massive financial liabilities to pay for future retiree health benefits".

Examples of accumulation

accumulation
In addition, there were other papers on designing economic plans, capital accumulation, and foreign examples of economic development plans, translated by the bank.
However, investment and capital accumulation processes as a function of relative returns may not be incorporated, and long-term elasticities only minimize this flaw.
The growth of the economy is traced over time, taking into account population growth, capital accumulation, and technical change.
The accumulation of polymers within the secretory pathway leads to hepatocyte death and, ultimately, to liver cirrhosis.
As in sensory neuropathy the value of aldose reductase inhibitors, which block the accumulation of sorbitol, remains uncertain.
First, the accumulation of past idiosyncratic exogenous total factor productivity shocks enhances the labor-augmenting technology and has a positive permanent impact on labor efficiency.
The asset accumulation phase for the mandatory part of the second pillar is defined by law to be 40 years.
The intimate relationship between ageing and accumulation of economic resources was always somewhat fragile.
This might explain why some retirees with relatively small accumulations have nonetheless purchased annuities.
The released myo-inositol is recycled into galactinol to further the accumulation of oligosaccharides.
There has also been an accumulation of data that cannot be rationally explained within a static framework.
Using this measure, the depletion (accumulation) of natural capital stocks in excess of economically efficient rates may increase income.
The enthusiastic accumulation by fans of an unending suite of related images both echoes and subverts the mass mechanical reproduction of the modern celebrity image.
A long-term fall in real housing appreciation rates would strongly depress total wealth accumulation and have a smaller impact on retirement cash flows.
A decline in fitness was observed in this experiment and ascribed to accumulation of mutations.
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Collocations withaccumulation

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accumulation of knowledge
As documented, these lines of inquiry have led to the accumulationofknowledge about the development of psychopathology in children.
accumulation of power
When it was used for the common good, the people prospered and witchcraft (the private accumulation ofpower which threatened societal order) was suppressed.
gradual accumulation
Other areas of the canal show more horizontal layering caused by the gradualaccumulation of sediments over time.
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