accretions

• accessions
• accruals
• accumulations
• addenda
• addendums
• additions
• agglomerates
• agglomerations
• aggregates
• aggregations
• appendices
• appendixes
• assemblages
• assortments
• augmentations
• backlogs
• boosts
• caches
• clutters
• collections
• complements
• congeries
• conglomerates
• conglomerations
• continuations
• cumulations
• cumuli
• expansions
• extensions
• funds
• gains
• gatherings
• hashes
• heaps
• hoards
• hodgepodges
• hotchpotches
• increases
• increments
• inventories
• jumbles
• jumps
• kitties
• litters
• lodgements
• lodgments
• masses
• medleys
• mishmashes
• mixes
• mixtures
• more
• motleys
• nest eggs
• piles
• pileups
• pluses
• plusses
• potpourris
• proliferations
• raises
• reserves
• rises
• run-ups
• spikes
• step ups
• step-ups
• stockpiles
• stocks
• stores
• sums
• supplements
• supplies
• totalities
• upticks
• uptrends
• upturns

• abatements
• declines
• decreases
• decrements
• deductions
• depletions
• diminishments
• diminutions
• drop-offs
• falloffs
• falls
• losses
• reductions
• shrinkages
• step downs
• step-downs
• stepdowns
• subtractions

• noun
  1. The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
  2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.
  3. Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
  4. Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
  5. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
  6. The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
  7. The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
  8. Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.

• The archaeologist found several accretions of ancient materials buried beneath the surface.
• The accretions of sediment over thousands of years created the island.
• The company experienced slow but steady accretions to its assets through small acquisitions.
• Environmental changes have led to the accretions of new land along the coastline.
• Over time, the accretions of minerals formed a large deposit in the cave.

raises

accruals

addenda

addendums

additions

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