Accrue
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English
Verb
Accrue (third-person singular simple present Accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)
- 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.
- (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.
Noun
Accrue (plural Accrues)Synonyms for Accrue
accumulate, increase, grow, gain, result, gather, [[become a legal right]], yield.
Antonyms for Accrue
- (accounting): amortize
Thesaurus
accrue from; accrue to; accumulate; advance; appreciate; arise from; balloon; be contingent on; be due to; be received; bloat; boom; breed; broaden; bud from; come from; come in; come out of; come to hand; crescendo; depend on; derive from; descend from; develop; emanate from; emerge from; ensue from; fall due; fall to one; flow from; follow from; gain; gain strength; germinate from; get ahead; go up; grow; grow from; grow out of; hang on; hinge on; increase; intensify; issue from; mature; mount; multiply; originate in; proceed from; proliferate; rise; run up; shoot up; snowball; spread; spring from; sprout from; stem from; strengthen; swell; turn on; wax; widen
Etymology
French accrû, past participle of accroître, from Old French acreü, past participle of acroistre (“to increase”); from Latin adcrēscō (“increase”), from ad- (“to”) + crēscō (“grow”). Compare accretion, accresce, accrete, crew, crescent.
