Absorption - English meaning

noun

The action of appropriating something.

Usage examples:

Dishonest appropriation of property

noun

An amount of money kept separate to use for a particular purpose, esp. by a government

Usage examples:

The city council approved an appropriation of $10,000 to plant trees.

noun

A sum of money to be used for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

An appropriation of $1 million/€5000/£20,000, etc. campus leaders are seeking an emergency appropri…

noun

The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.

Usage examples:

The assimilation of the knowledge of the greeks

noun

The process of becoming similar to others by taking in and using their customs and culture

Usage examples:

The assimilation of immigrants into american culture has been a constant feature of us history.

noun

Short form ofcooperative

noun

A cooperative noun

Usage examples:

An organic food co-op, a farmers' co-op

noun

A formal agreement to get married.

Usage examples:

She'd broken off her engagement to paul

noun

An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place

Usage examples:

We have a dinner engagement thursday., the dance theatre of harlem began a two-week engagement at t…

noun

An arrangement to do something, or to be somewhere

Usage examples:

A speaking/public engagement he is currently out of town on a speaking engagement., a prior/previou…

noun

The final version of a legal document, especially a deed or statute.

Usage examples:

I will prepare engrossments of the settlement agreement and you will prepare engrossments of the tr…

noun

The final version of a legal document

Usage examples:

The top copy should be retained and used as the engrossment if its terms are approved., i watched t…

noun

The state of being fascinated.

Usage examples:

Their enthralment with the supernatural

noun

The power to fascinate someone; the quality of being fascinating.

Usage examples:

Television has always held a fascination for me

noun

The action of immersing someone or something in a liquid.

Usage examples:

His back was still raw from immersion in the icy atlantic sea

noun

The action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure.

Usage examples:

They have been selected for inclusion in the scheme

noun

The act of including something as a part of something else

Usage examples:

Twelve new stories were selected for inclusion in the book.

noun

The act of including something or someone as part of something

Usage examples:

Inclusion in sth representatives of these industries lobbied hard against their inclusion in the bi…

noun

The inclusion of something as part of a whole.

Usage examples:

The software facilitates the incorporation of active learning in the course

noun

The act of including something within something else

Usage examples:

The incorporation of the family business

noun

The act of making a company or organization into a legal corporation (= a particular type of company)

Usage examples:

A certificate of incorporation of a limited liability partnership, the number of incorporations reg…

noun

The action or process of integrating.

Usage examples:

Economic and political integration

noun

The process of combining two or more things into one

Usage examples:

Integration across sth we need to reduce the differences between local units, with the aim of great…

noun

The fact or condition of being involved with or participating in something.

Usage examples:

Us officials produced evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking

noun

The state of being included in an activity

Usage examples:

[ u ] he was accused of involvement in the robbery.

noun

In business, complete control of something, which prevents other people or companies having any share or influence

Usage examples:

Their nation became wealthy due to avoiding the monopolization of their economy., there are worries…

noun

A job or profession.

Usage examples:

People in professional occupations

adjective

For the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned.

Usage examples:

An occupation bridge

noun

A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.

Usage examples:

If a solution and solvent or two solutions of different strength are separated by a semi permeable …

noun

The process in animals and plants by which a liquid passes gradually from one part to another through a membrane (= tissue that covers cells)

Usage examples:

Children often learn by osmosis.

noun

The state or condition of being preoccupied or engrossed with something.

Usage examples:

He began to overcome his preoccupation with germs

noun

The thing you think about most

Usage examples:

[ u ] his preoccupation with sports is affecting his grades.

verb

Include or absorb (something) in something else.

Usage examples:

Most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories

verb

Present participle of subsume

Usage examples:

Soldiers from many different countries have been subsumed into the united nations peace-keeping for…