Accrue

Definitions: Accrue

Accrue

Verb

1. Grow by addition, as of capital: "The interest accrues".

2. Come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son".

Date "accrue" was first used: 1440. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Finance	To increase or accumulate. Commonly used in reference to depreciation, expense, income, interest and other accounting factors. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Accrue

Synonym: fall (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Acquisition	Accrue; (be received).
Addition	Become added, accrue; advene, supervene.
Effect	Verb: be the effect of; Noun: be due to,be owing to; originate in, originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from, emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from, issue from, flow from,result from, follow from, derive its origin from, accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge upon, turn upon.
Receipt	Bring in, yield, afford, pay, return; accrue; (be received from).
Receiving	Be received; come in, come to hand; pass into one's hand, fall into one's hand; go into one's pocket; fall to one's lot, fall to one's share; come to one, fall to one; accrue; have given; to one.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Accrue

English words defined with "accrue": Accresce, Accruing ♦ To come in. (references)

Specialty definitions using "accrue": Ass ♦ betterment levy ♦ derived rights ♦ earnings basis, ex ante measurement of benefits, ex ante measurement of effects ♦ inclusion fee ♦ Trunk ♦ undistributed profits tax. (references)

Etymologies containing "accrue": Accresce, Accretion ♦ Concrew. (references)

Domain	Title
References	Accrue Software Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	ACCRUE SOFTWARE, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) Au-del� de la dépendance : pour une productivité accrue � Terre-Neuve (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The cost-utility estimates for children also appear to be quite favorable, but we are still in the early stages of cochlear implant application and cannot yet estimate the cost or potential cost savings that will accrue in the area of (re)habilitation and education. (references)
Business		NAFTA rules of origin ensure that NAFTA tariff benefits accrue only to U.S., Canadian and Mexican goods rather than to goods produced outside the region. (references)
Economic History	Cote D'ivoire	In addition, all employees accrue, during the time with the company in question, certain statutory benefits and entitlements that may not be waived by contract. (references)
	Jamaica	Nonresident partners, unless exempted under one of the incentive programs, including corporate partners, are subject to Jamaican tax on their share of the partnership profits that accrue in or are derived from Jamaica. (references)
Political Economy	Tunisia	THE RCD IS THE DOMINANT FORCE ON THE TUNISIAN POLITICAL SCENE, PRIMARILY DUE TO ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN LEADING TUNISIA'S INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND SUCCESS IN ACHIEVING HIGH LEVELS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL STABILITY, BUT ALSO, SIGNIFICANTLY, BECAUSE OF ADVANTAGES THAT ACCRUE TO IT AS THE PARTY OF THE GOVERNMENT AND LIMITS ON THE ABILITY OF OTHER PARTIES TO OPERATE. (references)
Trade	Luxembourg	This need to support multiple strategic and marketing programs will certainly limit the benefits, which a company would hope would accrue from the EU single market. (references)
Worker Rights	Mexico	Thereafter they were sold to the owners of bars and other establishments and then forced into prostitution to "pay off their debts." This debt peonage often never ends because the children accrue more debt for their meals and housing. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Calvin Coolidge	1923-1929	Removing the burden of expense and jealousy, which must always accrue from a keen rivalry, is one of the most effective methods of diminishing that unreasonable hysteria and misunderstanding which are the most potent means of fomenting war.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Accrue" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.23% of the time. "Accrue" is used about 177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80.23%	142	26,554
Lexical Verb (base form)	17.51%	31	62,296
Noun (singular)	2.26%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	177	N/A

Country	Name
USA	Accrue Software Inc.
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Expressions using "accrue": accrue from ♦ accrue to ♦ accrue to smb.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "accrue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		afstam (come, derive, originate, result), styg (advance, arise, ascend, climb, get, get up, go up, increase, lift, rise). (various references)

Albanian		shtohem (augment, breed, flare up, grow, multiply, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, stiffen, swell, wax), rrjedh (arise, come, come from, course, derive, descend, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), rritet (augment, Mount). (various references)

Arabic		‏أصبح حقا. (various references)

Bulgarian		увеличавам се (gather strength, run up, thicken, wax), нараствам (accrete, grow, increase, run up, thicken), натрупвам се (pack), произхождам (come from, derive, descend, emanate, evolve, issue, spring, stem, take off), произтичам (emanate, proceed, result), произлизам (arise, arisen, arose, emanate, ensue, eventuate, flow, flow from, originate, proceed, result), полагам се (be due), падам се (be, fall), идвам (arrive, come, hail, materialize, mature, pop along, pop over, reach, rise, roll around, roll in, roll up, set in). (various references)

Chinese		累积 (Accretion, Accrued, Accruing, Accumulative, Amass, Amassed, Amassing, Cumulated, Cumulating). (various references)

Czech		přirùstat (accrete), přibývat (grow, swell, wax), přibýt, narùstat (accumulate, boil up, build, build up). (various references)

Danish		afstamme (come, derive, originate, result), vokse (grow, to wax, waxing). (various references)

Dutch		afstammen (come, derive, originate, result), aanwassen (grow), aangroeien (augment, grow, increase, take), wassen (arise, ascend, bathe, blend, bottoming, get up, go up, grow, lift, mingle, mix, put on a wash, rise, scrubbing, shuffle, tint, wash, washing), voortkomen (come, derive, originate, result, spring, well up), toenemen (augment, freshen, grow, increase), stýgen (advance, arise, ascend, augment, climb, get up, go up, grow, increase, lift, rise), rýzen (advance, arise, ascend, climb, get up, go up, increase, lift, rise, swell), oplopen (advance, ascend, go up, increase, piling), ontspruiten (bud, come, derive, originate, result, sprout), het gevolg zýn van (come, derive, originate, result), groeien (augment, grow, increase, vegetate), gedýen (be succesful, flourish, grow, prosper, thrive). (various references)

Faeroese		vera ættaður frá (come, derive, originate, result), vaksa (grow, vegetate), koma av (come, derive, originate, result). (various references)

Farsi		منتج گردیدن , تعلق گرفتن , افزوده شدن . (various references)

Finnish		kasvaa (grow, growing up, increase, to take roots, vegetate). (various references)

French		augmenter, accroître, s'accumuler (accumulate), s'accroître, s'accoître, provenir, intérêt (account), grossir, grandir, frais � payer, croître, charges. (various references)

Frisian		waakse (grow, to grow), oanwaakse (grow), oangroeie (grow), ôfstamje (come, derive, originate, result), ôfskaaie (come, derive, originate, result). (various references)

German		zuwachsen (become overgrown, grow over, increase, to accrue), entstehen (arise, be born, be produced, birth, build up, come, come into being, derive, develop, emerge, grow, originate, result, spring, to accrue, to arise, to come into being, to come into existence), anfallen (accumulate, arise, assail, assault, attack, be incurred, savage, set upon, to accrue). (various references)

Greek		προκύπτω (arise, arise (arose arisen), come of, ensue, result). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"צטבר (accumulate, pile up), לצמוח (grow, shoot, spring up, sprout, turn out, wax). (various references)

Hungarian		származik (arisen, arose, came, come, derive, originate, to arise, to come, to descend from sy, to issue, to spawn), növekszik (be on the increase, escalate, thrive, to accrue, to augment, to gather, to gather head, to get large, to get larger, to grow big, to grow large, to grow larger, to heighten, to redouble, to wax, vegetate), nôvekszik (increase), nô (grow, increase, woman). (various references)

Icelandic		vaxa (grow). (various references)

Indonesian		meluas (dilate), bertambah (accretion). (various references)

Italian		discendere (come, come down, derive, descend, drop, fall, go down, originate, result, slope down, to descend), crescere (augment, grow, increase, rear, rise, shoot up, swell, wax). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		上がる (to accrue, to advance, to appreciate, to be offered, to be promoted, to call on, to climb up, to enter, to go up, to improve, to rise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あがる (to accrue, to advance, to appreciate, to be captured, to be offered, to be promoted, to become prosperous, to call on, to climb up, to enter, to go up, to improve, to rise). (various references)

Manx		irree (ascent; passion, climb, emotion, get off, get up, heave, levee, lift, lilt, rise, stand up, step up, swarm, take off, take off as plane, tip, turn out), bishaghey (accession, accession of funds, develop, development, expand, expansion, growth, increase, multiplication, multiply, prosper, thrive, wax, wax as moon). (various references)

Norwegian		vokse (grow). (various references)

Papiamen		krese (grow). (various references)

Pig Latin		accrueay.(various references)

Polish		zwiększyć się, rosnąć, róść. (various references)

Portuguese		provir (come, derive, issue, originate, result, To-be), derivar (branch, derive, drift, originate, result, to shunt). (various references)

Romanian		spori (accumulate, advance, augment, enhance, enlarge, grow, heighten, improve, increase, intensify, make, multiply, propagate, spurt, step up, thicken), se mãri (augment, enlarge, greaten, grow, increase, largen, lengthen, stretch, swell), rezulta (ensue, follow, issue, result, result from), proveni (arise, come, emanate, source), creşte (advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax). (various references)

Russian		расти (achieve momentum, gather momentum, grow, increase, thicken, vegetate, wax), выпадать на долю (accrue to), нарастать, накопляться, происходить (arise, be, befall, come, come about, come from, derive, descend, emanate, flow from, hap, happen, intervene, issue, occur, occurred, originate, take place). (various references)

Scottish		f� s (become, empty, get, grow, hollow, increase, increasing, void, waste). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nagomilati se (accrete, conglomerate). (various references)

Spanish		aumentar (add to, advance, amplify, augment, boost, bulk, develop, enhance, expand, extend, freshen, gain, gear up, get up, grow, heighten, hike, hike up, improve, increase, inflate, intensify, jack up, magnify, mark up, Mount, pile on, put up, step up, swell, up, upturn), descender (come, derive, descend, fall, fall away, get off, go down, like, originate, ramp, result, sink, to declass, to descend), crecer (come in, come on, grow, grow up, increase, luxuriate, make, polish, rise, shoot, shoot up, steepen, swell, wax). (various references)

Sranan		gro (grow). (various references)

Swedish		tillfalla (fall on, fall to, pass on to, pass to). (various references)

Turkish		artmak (accrete, advance, ascend, augment, be left, be left over, deepen, duplicate, go up, harden, heighten, increase, mount up, multiply, remain, rise, scale up, soar, step up, swell, wax), yetíxkín (grow), tahakkuk etmek, payına düşmek (come to, fall to, fall to one's share), büyümek (augment, bulk, enlarge, expand, extend, flourish, greaten, grow, grow up, hatch, increase, outgrow, shoot up, swell, vegetate, wax), çoğalmak (augment, breed, gain, go off, heighten, increase, mount up, multiply, proliferate, pullulate, reproduce). (various references)

Ukranian		виникати (arise, come of, come up, dimple, ensue, pullulate, rise), наростати (surge), накопичуватися, нагромаджуватися (agglomerate, congest), збільшуватися (accede, aggrandize, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, lengthen, multiply, run up, vegetate, wax), походити (deduce, derive, descend, originate, stem), діставатися. (various references)

Welsh		tyfu (grow), digwydd (befall, betide, happen, occur), deillio (emanate, issue, proceed), codi (amount, arise, erect, get up, lift, raise, rise). (various references)

Yucatec		ch'iihil (grow). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	accrescere, adolescere, adquiratis, adquire, adquirendi, adquirendo, adquirent, adquireret, adquisisti, adquisivi, adquisivit, crescere. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	acreue. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "accrue": accrued, accruement, accruements, accrues. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Accrue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accaron, Accius, accou, Accous, accr, accre, accrew, accru, accrude, accruel, accrul, accrule, accruse, accrute, Accu, accur, Accura, accure, acree, acrew, acru, acrude, acrue, acruel, acure, Aucctu, ecrue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "accrue" (pronounced ukruw")
3	-k r uw"	crew, screw.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-r-u"
	-2 letters: acre, care, ceca, cure, ecru, race, urea.
	-3 letters: ace, arc, are, car, cue, cur, ear, eau, ecu, era, rec, rue.
	-4 letters: ae, ar, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-r-u"
	+1 letter: accrued, accrues, accuser.
	+2 letters: accouter, accoutre, accurate, accursed, accusers, caesuric, caruncle, cruciate, curacies, reaccuse.
	+3 letters: accouters, accoutred, accoutres, accruable, buccaneer, cancerous, carbuncle, cartouche, caruncles, circulate, coruscate, cranreuch, craunched, craunches, creamcups, crustacea, reaccused, reaccuses, recusancy, uncracked.
	+4 letters: accoucheur, accoutered, accruement, accuracies, accurately, accursedly, buccaneers, calcareous, carbuncled, carbuncles, caricature, cartouches, circulated, circulates, corbiculae, coriaceous, coruscated, coruscates, counteract, cranreuchs, crunchable, crustacean, curvaceous, ericaceous, excruciate, inaccurate, nutcracker, precalculi, racecourse, reaccusing, reluctance, reluctancy.
	+5 letters: accoucheurs, accoutering, accruements, acculturate, acupuncture, archduchess, archduchies, autocracies, buccaneered, bureaucracy, calciferous, cancerously, caricatured, caricatures, charcuterie, circularise, circularize, circulative, coinsurance, conjectural, contracture, cotransduce, counteracts, crepuscular, crustaceans, crustaceous, encumbrance, equicaloric, eucharistic, euchromatic, excruciated, excruciates, macronuclei, nutcrackers, pococurante, precalculus, racecourses, recalculate, recirculate, recusancies, reluctances, scaramouche, scoriaceous, spectacular.
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