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Accession vs. Deaccession — What's the Difference?

Accession vs. Deaccession — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Accession and Deaccession

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Accession

The attainment of a dignity or rank
The queen's accession to the throne.

Deaccession

To remove (an object) from a collection, especially in order to sell it and purchase other objects
"He also denied that ... friends of the museum were permitted to buy ... pieces that were deaccessioned" (New York Times).

Accession

Something that has been acquired or added; an acquisition.

Deaccession

To remove an object or objects from a collection.

Accession

An increase by means of something added.
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Deaccession

To officially remove an object from a museum, art gallery or library so that it may be sold.

Accession

The addition to or increase in value of property by means of improvements or natural growth.

Deaccession

The disposal of objects in this way, or the disposed object itself.

Accession

The right of a proprietor to ownership of such addition or increase.

Deaccession

To sell (artwork); - used of sales of art by museums.

Accession

Agreement or assent.

Deaccession

Sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works;
The museum deaccessioned several important works of this painter

Accession

Access; admittance.

Accession

A sudden outburst.

Accession

To record in the order of acquisition
A curator accessioning newly acquired paintings.

Accession

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
A king's accession to a confederacy

Accession

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.

Accession

(legal) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).

Accession

(legal) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

Accession

The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
Her accession to the throne

Accession

(medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

Accession

Agreement.

Accession

Access; admittance.

Accession

A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.

Accession

(Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.

Accession

(transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

Accession

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Accession

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.
The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.

Accession

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

Accession

The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; - applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

Accession

The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

Accession

A process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group);
The art collectin grew through accession

Accession

(civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement

Accession

Something added to what you already have;
The librarian shelved the new accessions
He was a new addition to the staff

Accession

Agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly);
Accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent
Assenting to the Congressional determination

Accession

The right to enter

Accession

The act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne);
Elizabeth's accession in 1558

Accession

Make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library

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