accrue
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English
Etymology
First attested in mid 15th century. From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɹuː/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈkɹu/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -uː
Verb
accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)
- (intransitive) To increase, to rise
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue
- (intransitive) 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.
- 1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
- Interest accrues to principal.
- 1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface:
- The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
- 1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
- (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.
- 1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew:
- We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,
- In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,
- Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,
- Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
- (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
Synonyms
- (increase): rise; accrete; see also Thesaurus:increase
- (accumulate): add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
increase
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to be incurred as a result of the passage of time
to accumulate
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to become an enforceable and permanent right
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Noun
accrue (plural accrues)
Translations
something that accrues
Further reading
- “accrue”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “accrue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
accrue f (plural accrues)
- dry land created by draining
Participle
accrue f sg
Further reading
- “accrue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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