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accretive

/uh-kree-tiv/US // əˈkri tɪv //

增益性,增幅,增量,增益

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : increasing by natural growth or gradual addition:Not only in manufacturing, but also in other sectors, there is an accretive demand for plastics.
    • : growing together from separate or disparate parts into a single whole:By making room for reports of single experiments and minor technical advances, journals have made the chaos of science accretive.
    • : contributing to the growth or increase of something, especially profit:Increased penetration of overseas markets will be accretive to the company’s earnings.Effective presentation of data is greatly accretive to helping understand trends and insights.

Examples

  • In the engineering space where we compete for talent with some of the big tech firms, being able to provide a much more flexible working environment through the pandemic is accretive to the overall quality of the job.

  • Investors, betting on Ping’s move to SaaS being accretive both now and in the long-term, were not stoked by its Q4 forecast.

  • The process is not accretive, but exfoliatory—a continual movement from within outwards.

  • If we willed it, we could not prevent 'an institutional race' from absorbing one which has no accretive principle of growth.

  • Architectural peculiarities and appointments are ever accretive properties with the novelist of imagination and latitude.