Usually means: Formal acquisition of rights, title.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word accession:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. accession: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. accession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accession: Vocabulary.com
  5. Accession, accession: Wordnik
  6. accession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. accession: Wiktionary
  8. accession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. accession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. accession: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. accession: Dictionary.com
  12. Accession (DS9 episode), Accession (property law), Accession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Accession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. accession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. accession: Rhymezone
  16. accession: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. accession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. accession: Free Dictionary
  19. accession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. accession: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. accession: Collins English Dictionary
  22. accession: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. accession: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Accession: art glossary

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. accession: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. accession: Legal dictionary
  7. accession: Financial dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accession: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. accession: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Biodiversity (No longer online)

(Note: See accessional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
noun:  Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
noun:  (law) 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).
noun:  (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
noun:  The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
noun:  (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
noun:  Agreement.
noun:  Access; admittance.
noun:  A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
noun:  (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
verb:  (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

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