accumulations
- 1Plural of accumulation.
Decades of careless spending led to staggering accumulations of debt.
The river carried sediment that formed thick accumulations along the delta.
Note
The plural pulls the word toward its concrete side. Accumulations are usually the masses themselves, such as heaps of debt, sediment or dust, rather than the act of gathering. The same spelling also covers the specialist senses: in finance, accumulations can be periods of capital growing through retained interest, or of investors buying an asset while its price is low. For the process in general, the singular reads more naturally.
accumulations is a form of accumulation
accumulation, noun: A mass of things that have been piled up or gathered together. Full entry
- Forms
- accumulationaccumulations plural
- Spelling
- accumulation → accumulations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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