accrue
About 1.40 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To increase, to rise
- verb To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.
- verb 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.
- verb To accumulate.
He has accrued nine sick days.
- verb To become an enforceable and permanent right.
- noun Something that accrues; advantage accruing
Similar words
fall accrual cumulate amass build-up accumulate build increase grow collect
Often followed by
to from in on as if the until and
Word family
accruable accrued accruement accruements accrues accruing
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