accrue
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
accrue (accrues, present participle accruing; past and past participle accrued)
- (intransitive) To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue
- Interest accrues to principal.
- The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
- (transitive) to accumulate
- He has accrued nine sick days.
- (intransitive, legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
- (increase) rise; see also Thesaurus:increase
- (accumulate) add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
- French: accroître
- German: anfallen
- Italian: accrescersi
- Portuguese: acrescer, acumular
- Russian: прираста́ть
- Spanish: acrecentar, acumular, aumentar
- Russian: начислять
- Spanish: devengar
- Spanish: adquirir
accrue (plural accrues)
- (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
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