cumulative : Idioms & Phrases
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Cumulative action
(Med.) , that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose.
Webster 1913
Cumulative poison
- a poison the action of which is cumulative.
Webster 1913
cumulative preferred
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noun preferred stock whose dividends if omitted accumulate until paid out
cumulative preferred.
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cumulative preferred stock
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noun preferred stock whose dividends if omitted accumulate until paid out
cumulative preferred.
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cumulative vote
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noun an election in which each person has as many votes as there are positions to be filled and they can all be cast for one candidate or can be distributed in any manner
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Cumulative vote ∨ system of voting
(Politics) , that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.
