My Vocab Collection
accrue
noun
1. Something that accrues; advantage accruing
verb
1. To increase, to rise
2. 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.
3. To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
Example: The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
4. To accumulate
Example: He has accrued nine sick days.
5. To become an enforceable and permanent right.
Synonyms: add up rise
Antonyms: amortize defer prepay