accrue
IPA: ʌkrˈu
noun
- (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
verb
- (intransitive) To increase, to rise
- (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.
- (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
- (transitive) To accumulate.
- (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
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Examples of "accrue" in Sentences
- All their goods accrued to the crown.
- All profits and losses accrue to the owner.
- The wealth accrued by trade was substantial.
- All of the royalty does not accrue to the writer.
- Is not the landlord entitled to the accrued rent I ask
- That person then receives the majority of the accrued revenue.
- Accrued liabilities is the direct opposite of prepaid expense.
- The closer the player is to the leader, the more points they accrue.
- Command points are accrued and determine the rank of the pilot profile.
- After the contract ends, all additional cost savings accrue to the agency.
- Investors long the calls accrue profits if shares surge 22. 5% to $11.61 by expiration day in June.
- From that they subtracted the gains in energy that might accrue from a more energy-efficient building.
- Many of our citizens have reason to believe that great good will accrue from the adoption of a bi-metallic standard.
- In spite of the slow start, Russia will undoubtedly embrace the benefits which accrue from a successful small-business sector.
- The real opinions were given quite clearly and established the case of the city with advantages to accrue from a complete integration.
- If Textron thought there was a chance that the IRS would disallow a deduction, it would set aside -- or "accrue" -- a portion of the expected savings.
- The success in political terms through, for example, wider share ownership and the fairly immediate benefits for taxpayers overall by virtue of progressively lower tax rates, accrue from the fact of privatization.
- PRESIDENT BALFOUR: Your Honour, may I express on behalf of all within the sound of our voice our thanks for this analysis of the Housing Problem, for the suggestion, of remedies, and for the suggestion of the collateral advantages which would accrue from the application of them.
- John, of course, declared the thing 'clearly impossible, no use trying it;' but a servant of the theatre, overhearing our debate, politely offered to escort me where I wished; and then John, having no longer any difficulties to surmount, followed, to have his share in what advantages might accrue from the change.