accrue
/əˈkɹu/ verb C2- To increase, to rise
- 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.
- 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.
- To accumulate. · He has accrued nine sick days.
- To become an enforceable and permanent right.
He/she/it accrues · Past accrued · Past participle accrued · -ing form accruing
Verb forms
- Base form
- accrue
- He/she/it
- accrues
- Past
- accrued
- Past participle
- accrued
- -ing form
- accruing
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