Meanings
- not comparableNot cumulative.
There is often a sad, noncumulative pattern to working-class lives. In some professions as you get older, you rise to more responsible positions. And that was true under the old seniority-based work rules in factories.
2016 September 20, David Brooks, “Dignity and Sadness in the Working Class”, in The New York Times - not comparablebusinessNot having an accumulating right to receive dividends unpaid in previous periods.
The payment consists of $3 billion in common stock for $25.35 a share as well as $6 billion in perpetual noncumulative convertible preferred stock with a 10 percent dividend and a conversion price of $31.25 a share.
2008 September 29, Louise Story, “Morgan Stanley Completes Mitsubishi Deal”, in The New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱuh₁mósder.?
- Latincumulus
- Latincumulō
- Latincumulātus
- Englishcumulate
- Englishcumulative
- Englishnoncumulative
From non- + cumulative.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
noncumulative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncumulative
“noncumulative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncumulative. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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