Definition of "accede"

accede

/əkˈsiːd/

verb
third-person singular simple present accedes, present participle acceding, simple past and past participle acceded
1. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
2. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
3. (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  Quotations
  Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had already acceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers. The Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was the last of the Eastern European workers' states trying to hold on to what was left of its planned, socialized framework of production and its collective ownership.
  2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Workers World‎
4. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  Quotations
  Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
  2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 32
5. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.