Definition of Accumulate

Accumulate

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

Collected; accumulated.

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Accumulate Quotations

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.
Charles E. Wilson

The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.
Lee Krasner

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
E. L. Konigsburg

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
Brian Mulroney

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
William Vickrey

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.
Jason Marsden

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Arthur Bloch

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Junius

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.
Margaret Whiting

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
Jim Cooper

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
Lou Harrison

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
James Larkin

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Gloria Steinem

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Accumulate Translations

accumulate in Dutch is accumuleren, ophopen, opeenhopen
accumulate in French is accumulons, amoncelent, entassent, accumulez
accumulate in German is sich ansammeln, ansammeln
accumulate in Italian is accumulare, immagazzinare, ammassare
accumulate in Norwegian is samle, hope seg opp
accumulate in Portuguese is acumule
accumulate in Spanish is aglomerar, acumular, conglomerar
accumulate in Swedish is hopsamla

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