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The paperwork moment a thing stops being yours and starts being history's.
means The formal act of taking up a position, title, or power — or of an item officially entering a collection or archive.
from From Latin accessio, 'a coming near, an addition,' built from accedere — ad- 'to' plus cedere 'to go, to yield.' The same root that gives us 'cede' and 'concede,' so an accession was literally a 'going toward' or joining: a king going toward the throne, an object going into a museum's keeping.
- museum sense
- the official birth certificate of an object's ownership
- eu sense
- joining the club after decades of homework and vetoes
- royal sense
- inheriting a job you can't quit or interview for
- etymology
- from acceding, literally coming toward or approaching