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accession - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | accession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that augments, adds to |
| Synonyms: | accretion, addition, augmentation, enlargement, extension, increase, increment, raise, rise |
| Main Entry: | accession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming to power |
| Synonyms: | assumption, attainment, inauguration, induction, investment, succession, taking on, taking over |
| Antonyms: | decline, fall |
| Main Entry: | accession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acquiescence, assent, concurrence, consent, accedence |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dispute, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | accretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gradual growth, addition |
| Synonyms: | accession, accumulation, augmentation, increase, increment, raise, rise, build-up |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deduction, shrinkage |
| Main Entry: | accumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gathering or amassing |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, agglomeration, aggregation, augmentation, chunk, collection, conglomeration, enlargement, growth, heap, hunk, increase, inflation, mass, multiplication, pile, quantity, stack, stock, store, up, aggrandizement, amassment, build-up, collecting, gob, hoarding, intensification, trove, upping |
| Antonyms: | dispersion, dissipation, scattering, dispersal |
| Main Entry: | acquiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reluctant agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance, concurrence, conformity, consent, obedience, permission, resignation, submission, yielding, giving in, submissiveness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, insubordination, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | assent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, accord, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, affirmation, approval, authorization, compliance, concurrence, consent, nod, permission, sanction |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissent, rejection |
| Main Entry: | augmentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making greater; improving |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, amplification, boost, buildup, development, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, expansion, extension, growth, hike, increase, increment, inflation, multiplication, raise, reinforcement, rise, swelling, up, beefing up, fleshing out, heightening, intensification, magnification, strengthening, upping |
| Antonyms: | decrease, degradation |
| Main Entry: | coming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrival |
| Synonyms: | accession, advent, approach, landing, reception |
| Antonyms: | departure, exit, departing, going, leaving |
| Main Entry: | enrollment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | registration for membership |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, admission, conscription, engagement, enlistment, entrance, entry, induction, influx, matriculation, rally, reception, record, response, subscription, listing, recruitment, student body, students |
| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition, growth |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, development, elaboration, enlargement, escalation, exaggeration, expansion, extension, gain, hike, incorporation, increment, inflation, merger, multiplication, raise, rise, spread, surge, swell, swelling, upgrade, upsurge, upturn, aggrandizement, burgeoning, cumulation, intensification, maximization, optimization, step-up, waxing |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depletion, diminishment, loss, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | increment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small step toward gain |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, accrual, addition, advancement, augmentation, enlargement, increase, profit, raise, rise, supplement, accrument |
| Antonyms: | decrease, loss |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase in salary or position |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, advance, augmentation, boost, bump, hike, increment, jump, leg*, promotion, rise, hold-up, jump-up, leg-up, move-up, raising, step-up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | decrease, drop, reduction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acknowledgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | act of recognizing authority or truth of something |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, acquiescence, admission, affirmation, allowance, assent, assertion, avowal, compliance, concession, concurrence, confession, confirmation, declaration, profession, ratification, realization, recognition, yielding, admitting, allowing, asservation, conceding, corroboration |
| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process of conjoining, adding |
| Synonyms: | accession, adjoining, annexation, attachment, augmentation, enlargement, extension, inclusion, increasing, adding, affixing |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deduction, lessening, loss, reduction, shrinkage, subtraction, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | agreement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concurrence |
| Synonyms: | accession, accommodation, accord, adjustment, affiliation, affinity, alliance, amity, arbitration, arrangement, bargaining, compatibility, compliance, compromise, concert, concession, concord, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, harmony, mediation, reconciliation, similarity, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, verification, verifying, acceding, accordance, acknowledging, approving, assenting, authorizing, complying, concordance, concurring, endorsing, granting, ratifying, suitableness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way, means of arriving |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, advance, advent, avenue, coming, entrance, gate, landing, nearing, passage, path, reaching, road, way, drawing near |
| Antonyms: | departure, distancing, leaving |
| Main Entry: | arrival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming to a destination |
| Synonyms: | accession, advent, appearance, approach, entrance, happening, influx, ingress, landing, meeting, occurrence, return, alighting, arriving, debarkation, disembarkation, dismounting, homecoming |
| Antonyms: | departure, disappearance, leave |
| Main Entry: | installation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | establishment, inauguration |
| Synonyms: | accession, coronation, fitting, induction, installment, investment, ordination, furnishing, inaugural, instatement, investiture, launching, placing, positioning, setting up |
| Main Entry: | reception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acceptance; acknowledgment |
| Synonyms: | accession, acquisition, admission, disposition, encounter, gathering, greeting, induction, introduction, meeting, reaction, receipt, receiving, recognition, response, salutation, treatment, welcome, recipience |
| Antonyms: | disacknowledgment |
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