ABSORB Definition

ABSORB is to assimilate, transfer or incorporate amounts in an account or a group of accounts in a manner in which the first entity loses its identity and is "absorbed" within the second entity. For example, see ABSORPTION COSTING.

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SUPPLANT is to take the place of or move into the position of, e.g. the computer supplanted the slide rule.

SOCIAL ENTITY is the separate existence of an organization that is perceived to exist, by its members and the public at large, as a given, i.e. something that exists before and outside of them.

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