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| cu·mu·la·tive [ kymyə làytiv, kymyələtiv ] |
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1. gradually building up: becoming successively larger, stronger, or more effective
  Many drugs have a cumulative effect on the body.
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2. created by gradual additions: resulting from successive additions
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3. finance added to next payment: describes an interest or dividend payment that is added to the next payment rather than being paid out when it falls due
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4. stock exchange entitling shareholder to claim dividend arrears: describes preferred stocks whose holder has the right to claim dividend arrears before dividends are distributed to holders of common stock
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5. criminal law more severe for repeat offender: describes a more severe punishment imposed on somebody who has previously committed the same crime
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6. criminal law consecutive: used to describe a sentence or prison term that follows another consecutively
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7. statistics including all given values of variable: relating to the sum of the number of times a variable has a specific value totaled over all the values of the variable that are less than a given value
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8. statistics increasing with successive measurements: describes an error that increases as more measurements are taken
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| cu·mu·la·tive·ly adverb |
| cu·mu·la·tive·ness noun |
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