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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accrue
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ Failure to benefit from some union policies need not preclude membership if advantages accrue from other union policies.
▪ No such advantage could accrue to wealthy daughters.
▪ The taller you are for your weight, the more range advantage you will accrue.
▪ I then attempted to assess how much advantage accrued from each such possible use.
benefit
▪ The benefits that will accrue following economic recovery are self-evident.
▪ But the benefit accruing to each individual user would not justify the purchase of such a large and indivisible product.
▪ The funding of capital expenditure is usually spread over the years that benefit will accrue.
▪ If this passes, people will be expecting the benefit to accrue to them.
▪ The two concepts of social and physical accessibility are related, as social benefits often accrue from physical accessibility.
▪ By applying this principle total world output will be maximized and benefits will accrue to all parties.
▪ Another predictive example involves the benefits accrued to political incumbents in contesting future elections.
▪ Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care.
interest
▪ To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d percent up to that day.
▪ The interest accruing between X and C takes the net accrued interest back to zero on the coupon payment date.
▪ In addition, interest on overdue tax accrued indefinitely and not on a day-to-day basis even if it was so calculated.
profit
▪ Hence partners must inform the other partners of all personal profits which have accrued to them by virtue of their being partners.
▪ Any overseas profits accrued not to it, but to the sub-businesses.
▪ Under the joint venture the council will pay nothing, while profits will accrue to Biomass.
▪ Any profit accruing to capital is earnings forgone by labour, and viceversa.
■ VERB
see
▪ The vast benefits many farmers saw as accruing to cities as a result of rural exploitation were no more than illusory.
▪ In these cultures no great harm can be seen to have accrued to the children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The accrued interest will be paid annually.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Economic returns can accrue when ambulatory nutrition care contributes to reducing the need for costly medical care.
▪ I do not see how those people can accrue a second pension.
▪ If significance is supposed to accrue with each repeated conjunction, it fails to do so for me.
▪ Over two years, let us say, £100,000 of income may have accrued to the settlement.
▪ Similarly, they share the risks and the profits or losses which may accrue to them.
▪ To him will accrue the credit for overthrowing the conventional wisdom and for installing the new ideas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accrue

Accrue \Ac*crue"\ ([a^]k*kr[udd]"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Accrued; p. pr. & vb. n. Accruing.] [See Accrue, n., and cf. Accresce, Accrete.]

  1. To increase; to augment.

    And though power failed, her courage did accrue.
    --Spenser.

  2. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. ``Interest accrues to principal.''
    --Abbott.

    The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press.
    --Junius.

Accrue

Accrue \Ac*crue"\, n. [F. accr[^u], OF. acre["u], p. p. of accroitre, OF. acroistre to increase; L. ad + crescere to increase. Cf. Accretion, Crew. See Crescent.] Something that accrues; advantage accruing. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accrue

mid-15c., from Old French acreue "growth, increase, what has grown," fem. of acreu, past participle of acreistre (Modern French accroître) "to increase," from Latin accrescere (see accretion). Related: Accrued; accruing. Apparently a verb from a French noun because there is no English verb to go with it until much later, unless the record is defective.

Wiktionary
accrue

n. (context obsolete English) Something that accrues; advantage accruing vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. 2 (context intransitive accounting English) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time. 3 (context intransitive legal English) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

WordNet
accrue

  1. v. grow by addition; "The interest accrues"

  2. come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son" [syn: fall]

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Usage examples of "accrue".

The difficulty therefore which he apprehended there might be in corrupting this young wench, and the danger which would accrue to his character on the discovery, were such strong dissuasives, that it is probable he at first intended to have contented himself with the pleasing ideas which the sight of beauty furnishes us with.

Shrewd investment of the modest incomes from certain of his patrimonial properties, and then reinvestment of accruing proceeds, had in two decades made of Bartolomeo a rather wealthy man.

Much benefit might accrue to educators and moralists if they could know the details of the curriculum of reclamation through which Ranse put his waif during the month that he spent in the San Gabriel camp.

European seas, perhaps in consequence of their being exposed for that purpose, they will exclaim that the English were the aggressors in Europe, consequently deprived of all benefit accruing from the defensive treaty subsisting between them and the states-general of the United Provinces.

Any profits accruing from the corycium mine naturally belong to the natives of Angalia.

As for Master Kochi, I believe a return of his losses and relief from the specter of indebtedness shall settle his account fairly, with additional benefit accruing him through the vehicle of a very stern fright.

Piper, quite unable to disentangle a brother for Louey out of the new family that had accrued to him.

I say, parents and masters would leave their children alone a little more, small harm would accrue, although a less quantity of as in praesenti might be acquired.

But this morning had found him uprooted from the security of his home, the long-ingrained routines, the surety of his woodshop job and the status accrued in the course of living twenty years within those foreboding walls.

Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.

The truth was that indirectly they were as much victims of his oppression as the bipeds themselves, for all the financial advantages accruing.

Wego, but we will promote with maximum goodwill the advantages of the agreement you suggest, provided that at the end of summer we may take home with us tokens of what benefits may accrue therefrom, such as creshban, better cleanlickers, useful food-seeds, spyglasses and so on.

City sanitation workers are limited to 100 hours of accrued vacation while many other general employees are allowed no more than 180 hours.

As details accrued, picture quality sharpened, she understood how an imaginative act might be prelude and goad to its realization in actuality.

He couldnt ask for a better present than the one hed given himself: control of Noir Manor, and all lands, buildings, funds, and other objects accrued to it.