accumulation

  

Definitions (3)

1. Assigning profit to firm's capital reserve instead of distributing it as dividends. See also retained earnings.
2. Buying a commodity or security without selling it.
3. Successive additions of a substance that stays within a body or environment, and is not biodegraded, excreted, or neutralized.

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