Accrue
verb
To grow or increase over a period of time, especially interest or benefit on money or property.
Interest will accrue on the account until it is paid.
Often appears as...
- accrue interest
- accrue benefit
verb
To gain or obtain something beneficial due to the result of one's own actions, characteristics or circumstances.
By investing wisely, she hoped to accrue a fortune.
Often appears as...
- accrue gains
- accrue profit
verb
To come into possession of something as a result of time passed or events occurred.
He accrued a deep knowledge of the industry over his 20 year career.
Often appears as...
- accrue knowledge
- accrue experience
verb
To grow or increase over a period of time, especially interest or benefit on money or property.
Interest will accrue on the account until it is paid.
Often appears as...
- accrue interest
- accrue benefit
verb
To gain or obtain something beneficial due to the result of one's own actions, characteristics or circumstances.
By investing wisely, she hoped to accrue a fortune.
Often appears as...
- accrue gains
- accrue profit
verb
To come into possession of something as a result of time passed or events occurred.
He accrued a deep knowledge of the industry over his 20 year career.
Often appears as...
- accrue knowledge
- accrue experience
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Time Matters
Accrue implies growth or increase over time, it doesn't happen instantly.
Savings will accrue more interest the longer they're in the bank.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
Accrue is usually used for beneficial growth, such as profits or interests.
Frequent flyer points can accrue and lead to free flights.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Context
Accrue is often used in financial and business settings.
He let the dividends from his shares accrue over the years.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Matters
Accrue implies growth or increase over time, it doesn't happen instantly.
Savings will accrue more interest the longer they're in the bank.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
Accrue is usually used for beneficial growth, such as profits or interests.
Frequent flyer points can accrue and lead to free flights.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Context
Accrue is often used in financial and business settings.
He let the dividends from his shares accrue over the years.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Matters
Accrue implies growth or increase over time, it doesn't happen instantly.
Savings will accrue more interest the longer they're in the bank.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
Accrue is usually used for beneficial growth, such as profits or interests.
Frequent flyer points can accrue and lead to free flights.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Context
Accrue is often used in financial and business settings.
He let the dividends from his shares accrue over the years.
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Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
half of which would accrue to the Third World. Again, the point is to say that we could actually pull two to three hundred million people out of poverty, very radically fast, in about two to five years. That would be the third best thing we could do. The second best thing would be to focus on malnutrition.
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History's "worst" nun -...
in addition to religious music and poetry. She accrued a massive library, and was visited by many prominent scholars. While serving as the convent’s treasurer and archivist, she also protected the livelihoods of her niece and sisters from men who tried to exploit them.
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Are you a giver or a...
who agree most strongly with statements like, "I love helping others," which suggests the doctor you ought to trust is the one who came to med school with no desire to help anybody. And then in sales, too, the lowest revenue accrued in the most generous salespeople.
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A librarian's case...
within the first few months. When people aren't afraid of the fines they might accrue, they line up to access what we have to offer. So what are we telling people, then? We have these two disparate ideas. On the one hand, we're champions of democracy
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How an old loop of...
for example, didn't exist before there were highways. Think about it. Of course, today it's important to understand and acknowledge that those benefits accrued to some groups of people and not to others. It was not an equitable cultural momentum.
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A healthy economy should...
but the global economy has also become incredibly divisive, with the vast share of returns to wealth now accruing to a fraction of the global one percent. And the economy has become incredibly degenerative,
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The surprising science...
finally to be revealed first accrue wealth power and prestige than losing second spend as much of your life in prison as you possibly can third make somebody else really really rich and finally
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Women Behind Bars PIPE...
drug trade period when inmates accrue a drug debt and can't repay it just like out on the street there's going to be some violence that ensues the violence encompasses more than fists the women
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Why are we happy? Why...
OK, there's something important to be learned from these people, and it is the secret of happiness. Here it is, finally to be revealed. accrue wealth, power and prestige, then lose it.
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The difference between...
need to simultaneously recognize their privileges, the privileges that they have accrued as a result of their whiteness, and the only way in which they're going to be able to do that
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Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
half of which would accrue to the Third World. Again, the point is to say that we could actually pull two to three hundred million people out of poverty, very radically fast, in about two to five years. That would be the third best thing we could do. The second best thing would be to focus on malnutrition.
Video examples
History's "worst" nun -...
in addition to religious music and poetry. She accrued a massive library, and was visited by many prominent scholars. While serving as the convent’s treasurer and archivist, she also protected the livelihoods of her niece and sisters from men who tried to exploit them.
Video examples
Are you a giver or a...
who agree most strongly with statements like, "I love helping others," which suggests the doctor you ought to trust is the one who came to med school with no desire to help anybody. And then in sales, too, the lowest revenue accrued in the most generous salespeople.
Video examples
A librarian's case...
within the first few months. When people aren't afraid of the fines they might accrue, they line up to access what we have to offer. So what are we telling people, then? We have these two disparate ideas. On the one hand, we're champions of democracy
Video examples
How an old loop of...
for example, didn't exist before there were highways. Think about it. Of course, today it's important to understand and acknowledge that those benefits accrued to some groups of people and not to others. It was not an equitable cultural momentum.
Video examples
A healthy economy should...
but the global economy has also become incredibly divisive, with the vast share of returns to wealth now accruing to a fraction of the global one percent. And the economy has become incredibly degenerative,
Video examples
The surprising science...
finally to be revealed first accrue wealth power and prestige than losing second spend as much of your life in prison as you possibly can third make somebody else really really rich and finally
Video examples
Women Behind Bars PIPE...
drug trade period when inmates accrue a drug debt and can't repay it just like out on the street there's going to be some violence that ensues the violence encompasses more than fists the women
Video examples
Why are we happy? Why...
OK, there's something important to be learned from these people, and it is the secret of happiness. Here it is, finally to be revealed. accrue wealth, power and prestige, then lose it.
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The difference between...
need to simultaneously recognize their privileges, the privileges that they have accrued as a result of their whiteness, and the only way in which they're going to be able to do that
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Brad Stone
American Journalist
There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
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Craig Brown
English Critic
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
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Josh Radnor
American Director
It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.
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William Falconer
Scottish Poet
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
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Alanis Morissette
Canadian Musician
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
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Rumaan Alam
American Author
I didn't know, at 22, that everything that happens to you, the good stuff as well as the less-good stuff, accrues and becomes your life.
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Shia LaBeouf
American Actor
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American Educator
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Brad Stone
American Journalist
There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
Quote examples
Craig Brown
English Critic
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
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Josh Radnor
American Director
It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.
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William Falconer
Scottish Poet
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
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Alanis Morissette
Canadian Musician
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
Quote examples
Rumaan Alam
American Author
I didn't know, at 22, that everything that happens to you, the good stuff as well as the less-good stuff, accrues and becomes your life.
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Shia LaBeouf
American Actor
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American Educator
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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