Meanings
verbdecumulate (third-person singular simple present decumulates, present participle decumulating, simple past and past participle decumulated)
present singular third person decumulates · participle present decumulating · participle past decumulated · past decumulated
- To decrease in number.
[S]ooner or later, the employed agents will lose their job and start decumulating their wealth again.
2024, Burkhard Heer, Alfred Maußner, Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling: Computational Methods and Applications, third edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 440
Synonyms & antonyms
Opposite
Origin
From de- + (ac)cumulate, created as an antonym to accumulate, using the prefix de-. Compare decelerate.
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