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Accenture plc is a US multinational professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology services and consulting. A Fortune Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $64.1 billion in 2023.

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  1. accent:

    n (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.

    n (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.

    n (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

    n Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.

    n (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

    n (informal, sometimes proscribed) A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.

    n (sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.

    n A word; a significant tone or sound.

    n (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.

    n (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

    n (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

    n (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.

    n (music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.

    n (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.

    n (mathematics) A prime symbol.

    n Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.

    n A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.

    n (archaic) Utterance.

    v (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.

    v (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.

    v (transitive) To mark with written accents.


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