how to pronounce accession

/əkˈsɛʃ.ən/

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accession is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of accession in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… Croatia as an accession country so that …”

meanings of accession

noun:

The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
Agreement.
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
Access; admittance.

verb:

To make a record of (additions to a collection).

accession frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word accession occurs in english on average 5.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics accession can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that accession can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;