Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to accretion; increasing or adding by growth; growing; accrescent: as, “the accretive motion of plants,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
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- adjective Relating to
accretion ; increasing, or adding to, bygrowth - Glanvill
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- adjective growing by accretion
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Examples
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"However, it is positive to see that also for Hannover Re the claims will be manageable and long-term accretive," the analyst wrote.
German Reinsurers Suffer Ulrike Dauer 2011
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Furthermore, the company's proposal to split into two separate entities is expected to be long-term accretive.
unknown title 2011
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However, there are some wonderful opportunities out there and if they fit the criteria you set and we're reasonably near term accretive, and fit what we wanted to do, then I think that we would stretch and get some things done.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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We still believe this thing is near-term accretive, very excited about our management team there.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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We still believe this thing is near-term accretive, very excited about our management team there.
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We still believe this thing is near-term accretive, very excited about our management team there.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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And from a margin point of view, it is accretive, which is why we like the business, and we like the brand.
unknown title 2011
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The guidance I think that we gave on the acquisition was that monogram would be slightly accreted this year, and so Q1 was better than Q4 in terms of the drag, but we still are not to breakeven to slightly accretive, which is where we expect to be by the end of the year.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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The guidance I think that we gave on the acquisition was that monogram would be slightly accreted this year, and so Q1 was better than Q4 in terms of the drag, but we still are not to breakeven to slightly accretive, which is where we expect to be by the end of the year.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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"EPS accretive" -- not sure how 'accretive' is such a big deal or what 'accretive' really means.
CNOOC/Unocal: the business perspective of the Rothschild proposal Sun Bin 2005
qroqqa commented on the word accretive
Bank of America expects to achieve $7 thousand million in pretax expense savings, fully realized by 2012. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to earnings by 2010.
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September 15, 2008