Dictionary

accrue en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈkɹuː/ (UK)
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• /əˈkɹu/ (US)

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”). Compare accrete.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

Forms

accrue en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /əˈkɹuː/ (UK)
• (Australia) audio
• (US) audio
• /əˈkɹu/ (US)

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”). Compare accrete.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To increase, to rise
   • And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2. (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.
   • The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press 1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface:
   • Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.
   • The abolition of exploitation meant, in his view, not that workers should receive the equivalent of what they produced, but that the surplus value they do not receive in wages should accrue to society in the form of fresh investments, emergency reserves, payment for necessary 'unproductive' services, administration, etc., plus provision for those unable to work. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 333:
3. (intransitive) 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.
4. (transitive) To accumulate.
   • 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. 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
   • He has accrued nine sick days.
5. (intransitive) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Forms

Antonyms

amortize (antonym(s) of “accounting”) · prepay (antonym(s) of “accounting”) · defer (antonym(s) of “accounting”)

Deriveds

reaccrue · accruable · accrual · accruement · accruer

Relateds

accresce · accretion · crescent · accrete

Synonyms

add up (accumulate) · inure · rise (increase) · accrete

Translations (66)

es devengar (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · es acumular (to accumulate) · ota آرتمق (increase) · es aumentar (increase) · sh nagomilati (to accumulate) · pl wzrosnąć (increase) · sh nàrāsti (increase) · mi hua (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · hi बरामद होना (to accumulate) · pl wzrastać (increase) · de wachsen (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · ru добавля́ться (increase) · de zuwachsen (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · de entstehen (increase) · es acrecerse (increase) · es aumentarse (increase) · ru прираста́ть (increase) · sv växa till (increase) · hi प्रोद्भूत होना (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · da opsamle (increase) · es acrecer (increase) · sv öka (increase) · mi hua (increase) · nl accumuleren (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · it accrescersi (increase) · pt acrescer (increase) · fr accroître (increase) · da indsamle (increase) · ru прирасти́ (increase) · de zugute kommen (increase) · ru нараста́ть (increase) · ia accrescer (increase) · de sammeln (to accumulate) · ru нарасти́ (increase) · es acrecentarse (increase) · nl groeien (increase) · bg нараствам (increase) · de erwachsen (increase) · ru доба́виться (increase) · de auflaufen (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · de anwachsen (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · hi उपाजित होना (to accumulate) · de anfallen (increase) · bg полагам се (to become an enforceable and permanent right) · nl accumuleren (to accumulate) · da tilfalde (increase) · nl verhogen (increase) · hi उपाजित होना (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · de ansammeln (to accumulate) · fy groeien (increase) · de zufallen (to become an enforceable and permanent right) · sh нагомилати (to accumulate) · es adquirir (to become an enforceable and permanent right) · ru начислять (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · pt acumular (increase) · da påløbe (increase) · fi kasvaa (increase) · pl gromadzić (to accumulate) · ia accumular (increase) · io amaseskar (increase) · de zufließen (increase) · hi उठना (to be incurred as a result of the passage of time) · hi उपाजित होना (increase) · fy krije (increase) · sh нарасти́ (increase) · enm issen (to accumulate)