Define: Absorb

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Definition: Absorb

Quick Summary of Absorb

To assimilate or incorporate amounts in an account or group of accounts so that they are absorbed and lose their identity.

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Dictionary Definition

  1. transitive To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
  2. transitive, obsolete To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
  3. transitive To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.

In accounting to absorb means to assimilate or incorporate amounts in an account or group of accounts so that they are absorbed and lose their identity.

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Synonyms For Absorb

consume, absorbing, engross, assimilate, take in

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Definitions for Absorb are sourced/syndicated and enhanced from:

  • A Dictionary of Economics (Oxford Quick Reference)
  • BusinessDictionary.com
  • Oxford Dictionary Of Accounting
  • Oxford Dictionary Of Business & Management

This glossary post was last updated: 5th May 2019.