Synonyms: rise to power, accession
Definition: the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
Usage: Elizabeth's accession in 1558
Similar words: attainment
Definition: the act of achieving an aim
Usage: the attainment of independence
Synonyms: admission, admittance, access, accession, entree
Definition: the right to enter
Similar words: right
Definition: an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
Usage: they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people- Eleanor Roosevelt; a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away
Synonyms: accession, assenting
Definition: agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
Usage: accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent; assenting to the Congressional determination
Similar words: agreement
Definition: the verbal act of agreeing
Definition: something added to what you already have
Usage: the librarian shelved the new accessions; he was a new addition to the staff
Synonyms: accession
Definition: (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
Similar words: property right
Definition: the legal right of ownership
Synonyms: accession
Definition: a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
Usage: the art collection grew through accession
Similar words: increase, increment, growth
Definition: a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
Usage: the increase in unemployment; the growth of population
Synonyms: accession
Definition: make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library