ACCRUE

accrue

Noun

  1. Something that accrues; advantage accruing

Verb

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. To become an enforceable and permanent right.


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