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accrue

/əˈkɹuː/

noun

Meaning

  • Something that accrues; advantage accruing

verb

Meaning

  • To increase, to rise

  • 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.

  • To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.

    "The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses."

  • To accumulate

    "He has accrued nine sick days."

  • To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Synonyms

add up,
rise