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accretive
[ uh-kree-tiv ]
adjective
- increasing by natural growth or gradual addition:
Not only in manufacturing, but also in other sectors, there is an accretive demand for plastics.
- growing together from separate or disparate parts into a single whole:
By making room for reports of single experiments and minor technical advances, journals have made the chaos of science accretive.
- contributing to the growth or increase of something, especially profit:
Increased penetration of overseas markets will be accretive to the company’s earnings.
Effective presentation of data is greatly accretive to helping understand trends and insights.
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Other Words From
- non·ac·cre·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of accretive1
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Example Sentences
The process is not accretive, but exfoliatory—a continual movement from within outwards.
If we willed it, we could not prevent 'an institutional race' from absorbing one which has no accretive principle of growth.
Architectural peculiarities and appointments are ever accretive properties with the novelist of imagination and latitude.
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