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accession

UK/ækˈsɛʃ.ən/US/ækˈsɛʃ.ən/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,609 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: accessions

Accession is coming to a throne or joining an organisation. The accession of the queen, accession to the treaty, accession talks.

A monarch's accession is immediate on the death of the last, which is why the phrase about the king being dead and long-lived is not a contradiction. In libraries an accession is an item newly added to the collection.

Definitions of accession

  1. 1nounaccessionComing to a throne or joining an organisation.C1

    “The queen's accession to the throne was celebrated with fireworks.”

accession is a joining.

Where it comes from

Latin accessio comes from accedere, to approach or come to.

  1. Latin

    accessiō

  2. English, today

    accession

Ultimately from Latin accessiō, from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

accession in the wild

  • The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union.

    Enlargement of the European Union

  • Progress was slow: out of the 35 chapters necessary to complete the accession process, only 16 had been opened and one had been closed by May 2016.

    Accession of Turkey to the European Union

  • On 20 February 2019, a European Parliament committee voted to call for suspension of the accession talks, sparking criticism from the government of Turkey.

    Accession of Turkey to the European Union

  • The Treaty arranged accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU and amended earlier Treaties of the European Union.

    Treaty of Accession 2005

  • Croatia finished accession negotiations on 30 June 2011, and on 9 December 2011, signed the Treaty of Accession.

    2013 enlargement of the European Union

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.