absorption
Definition 1
Accounting: Integration of an account (called absorption account) into related accounts in preparation of a financial statement.
Definition 2
Economics: Total expenditure by a country's households, businesses, and government on goods and services. Current account deficit (or surplus) occurs when a country's GDP exceeds (or falls below) its absorption level.
Definition 3
Management: Integration of change and innovation into an organization's culture and operations.
Definition 4
Materials: Process by which a fluid (gas or liquid) is captured and taken in by a solid or liquid material. See also adsorption.
Definition 5
Securities: Sale of an entire issue of securities by its underwriters. See also assimilation.
absorption is in the Accounting & Auditing, Economics, Politics, & Society, Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership, Material & Occupational Safety and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.
absorption appears in the definitions of the following terms:
toxicity,
chemical-physical hazardous-waste treatment,
adsorption,
fixed production overhead variance,
route of entry,
recovery,
market maker,
exposure route,
situated learning,
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