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n. - The act of accumulating.

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  • The retreat and sundering, then, must be not from this body only, but from every alien accruement.
  • His vote will be used to advance the moneyed interests, and their devotional accruement of all things material.
  • The revenue from ivory and other elephant products formed an economic accruement for the conservation and effective management of elephant herds, the SADC said.
  • The accruement of technical improvements in particularly the great chemical industry is primarily dependent upon systematic industrial research, and this is being...
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