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amassment

/uh-mas/US // əˈmæs //UK // (əˈmæs) //

积累,混杂物,吸收,骚扰

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to gather for oneself; collect as one's own: to amass a huge amount of money.
    • : to collect into a mass or pile; gather: He amassed his papers for his memoirs.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to come together; assemble: crowds amassing for the parade.

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Examples

  • That’s a phrase used by historians to refer to 19th-century industrialists who amassed wealth and power through often unscrupulous and unethical methods.

  • Over time, Everfi has amassed more than 3,000 “strategic” partners, from LinkedIn to the NFL.

  • Having trimmed costs and amassed some dry powder, the company is poised to acquire again, targeting companies that were hit hard by the downturn.

  • The urge for nations to amass technological prowess and use it as an instrument of geopolitical power is what we mean by technonationalism.

  • While there are no fixed plans to yet, amassing thousands-strong databases from its new sampling push will be lucrative for the title in terms of growing its first-party data pool and spinning up other models like subscription boxes.

  • Göring, of course, would amass an astounding collection of artwork himself, both purchased and stolen.

  • If indeed the suit was a gamble by the Jackson matriarch to amass a sizable bank account of her own, it did not pay off.

  • Black used his prominent standing within the hate movement to amass a following of his own.

  • Absent the NCAA, such a student would be able to amass significant cash during a college career.

  • Poor, innocent, misunderstood Rupert Murdoch; how did such a powerless individual ever amass the empire he has.

  • He had heard so much of the beauty of the Little Russian folk-songs, and hoped to amass material for his future compositions.

  • After toiling through life to amass a fortune, they wish to have their own way of disposing of it.

  • The Spaniards who come here, come with but one object, to amass wealth by any means in their power, and then to go back.

  • Fortunately Spaniards understand nothing of that, they look upon the paisanos as barbarians by whose labour they can amass wealth.

  • Had his object been to amass a fortune, he might have received many lucrative appointments besides those which he actually held.