Definition of "accrue" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To increase, to rise

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.

   • Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.
   • 1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE Interest accrues to principal.

3. (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.

4. (transitive) To accumulate.

   • He has accrued nine sick days.
   • 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.

5. (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

noun

1. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing