to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
to be added as a matter of periodic gain or advantage, as interest on money.
Law. to become a present and enforceable right or demand.
Origin of accrue
1425–75; late Middle English acruen, acrewen, probably <Anglo-French accru(e), Middle French accreu(e), past participle of ac(c)reistre to increase <Latin accrēscere grow. See ac-, crew1, accretion
It 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|ProPublica
Over 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|TechCrunch
The order also does not prevent landlords from charging fees or accruing interest, if those are included under the renter’s lease.
Everything to know about Trump’s halt on evictions|Aric Jenkins|September 3, 2020|Fortune
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
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|DAILY BEAST
Makes your kids want to do their chores, by allowing them to purchase prizes with the points they accrue.
The 15 Hottest New Apps at Dublin’s Web Summit|Tom Sykes|October 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Makes your kids want to do their chores by allowing them to purchase prizes with the points they accrue.
The 15 Hottest New Apps at Dublin’s Web Summit|Tom Sykes|October 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
Democratic politics are the accumulation of a great many small decisions and actions that will accrue to what seems a big picture.
Buckley, Birchers, Tea and the Fringe|Justin Green|December 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I have detailed the benefits which will accrue to me, and the trouble which will in all likelihood accrue to you.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 1|Various
From both ways of listening helpful results may accrue, but by no means the greatest.
For Every Music Lover|Aubertine Woodward Moore
A reaction inevitably occurs from the poor results that accrue from these professedly "logical" methods.
How We Think|John Dewey
They scanned the boat critically, and shuffled, in imagination, the boundless profits that were to accrue.
My New Curate|P.A. Sheehan
Such loss as did accrue was shared in and averaged among the whole community, making it the veriest trifle upon any individual.
Money|John P. Jones
British Dictionary definitions for accrue
accrue
/ (əˈkruː) /
verb-crues, -cruingor-crued(intr)
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
Word Origin for accrue
C15: from Old French accreue growth, ultimately from Latin accrēscere to increase, from ad- to, in addition + crēscere to grow