accrue
to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
to be added as a matter of periodic gain or advantage, such as an employment benefit or interest on money: Paid time off is accrued weekly, at a rate of one hour per week.
Law. to become a present and enforceable right or demand.
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- ac·cru·a·ble, adjective
- ac·crue·ment, noun
- non·ac·cru·ing, adjective
- su·per·ac·crue, verb (used without object), su·per·ac·crued, su·per·ac·cru·ing.
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How to use accrue in a sentence
Any additional time off would come out of his accrued sick and vacation time, he was told.
Workers are getting fired and penalized for reporting COVID safety violations | lbelanger225 | October 23, 2020 | FortuneIt sought, unsuccessfully, to reduce nurses’ accrued vacation time and to cut pension benefits for all employees who didn’t work full time.
Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances | by Peter Elkind with Doris Burke | September 30, 2020 | ProPublicaOver at Palantir, which we have covered extensively the past few weeks, the company is even more of an outlier, with large-contract government sales that accrue over many years.
Asana up 39% and Palantir still holding as both direct listings hit the public markets | Danny Crichton | September 30, 2020 | TechCrunchThe order also does not prevent landlords from charging fees or accruing interest, if those are included under the renter’s lease.
Subscription services, however, retained almost three-quarters of the extra viewing they had accrued over lockdown.
‘We’ll get briefs we couldn’t access before’: Inside Channel 4’s push for programmatic advertisers | Seb Joseph | August 11, 2020 | Digiday
The fines accrue thousands of dollars in interest every week.
You have to accrue power, use it in ethical ways, and hope that voters reward you for doing this.
Bill de Blasio Mayoral Win Signals Working Families Party Ascendancy | David Freedlander | November 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMakes your kids want to do their chores, by allowing them to purchase prizes with the points they accrue.
Makes your kids want to do their chores by allowing them to purchase prizes with the points they accrue.
And Blizzard takes a 15% cut of the real-money transactions; the commissions that used to flow to eBay now accrue to them.
Diablo 3 Director Regrets Building an In-Game Market | Megan McArdle | March 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom this time, by the help of these machines, immense and incalculable riches will accrue to the nation.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickOther cases may occur, in which great advantage would accrue, if the principle were once admitted.
Decline of Science in England | Charles BabbageNo possible benefit could accrue to Sylvia from a disclosure of his suspicion that he had borne the letter to her grandfather.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonHis excellency also referred to the advantages which would accrue from the establishment of an agricultural society.
History of Prince Edward Island | Duncan CampbellThe only gain that would accrue from his confession would be, he considered, a subjective gain to himself.
A Life Sentence | Adeline Sergeant
British Dictionary definitions for accrue
/ (əˈkruː) /
to increase by growth or addition, esp (of capital) to increase by periodic addition of interest
(often foll by to) to fall naturally (to); come into the possession (of); result (for)
law (of a right or demand) to become capable of being enforced
Origin of accrue
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