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Meaning of Accession | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ækˈsɛʃ.ən

Definitions

  1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
  2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
  3. Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
  4. 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).
  5. The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
  6. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
  7. The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
  8. Agreement.
  9. Access; admittance.
  10. A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
  11. Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.

Equivalents

Examples

“a king's accession to a confederacy”
“The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.”
“1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli, […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.”
“her accession to the throne”
“This is the 6 ft. 4-6-0 engine No. 8301, Springbok, the second design produced by Mr. Edward Thompson since his accession to office as Chief Mechanical Engineer.”
“Charles will be formally proclaimed King at a historic Accession Council in an ancient ceremony at St James’s Palace on Saturday, it has been announced.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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