[n] the act of accumulating [n] [n] (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation [n] an increase by natural growth or addition
accretion, accrual, accruement, aggregation, assemblage, collection
abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, acervation, addition, advance, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregate, aggregation, amassing, amassment, amplification, appreciation, ascent, assemblage, assembling, augmentation