What is "accrued"

Usage examples of "accrued".

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

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.

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.

The resulting bonanzas that had accrued to China in technology, manufacturing, currency, and economy had ensured the furtherance of the final phases of Zenim’s planning.

But as Burden was only in his first term, he carried no great weight other than the power that accrued to him as the link between the Bryanite senators and the President, a position recently relinquished by the blind Senator from Oklahoma, who could abide neither President nor war.

For the Weaver, there were no dreams at night, no hidden messages from the secret corners of the mind, no mental clearout of accrued garbage bespeaking an orderly consciousness.

For the Weaver, there were no dreams at night, no hidden messages from the secret corners of the mind, no mental clearout of accrued garbage bespeaking an or­derly consciousness.

He tried to slide past the time by flipping from the Solomon anthology to Marvel comics to the Zap comix he'd accrued in his pursuit of understanding.

In the endless battle to climb up the Ares selection ladder, Curval had the great advantage of being from an earlier recruitment class than Gershon, and had already accrued plenty of live, free-flying MLTV experience.

Mother figured that the accrued interest on the long-term accounts would be enough to pay off our family debt and perhaps allow me to survive comfortably for a while.

Miss Fox, would very much like to have twenty-six thousand dollars, no doubt with accrued interest, to discharge debts of your dead father.

And when they leave, Vainmill will sit on their money for seven years and then take ten minutes getting a friendly judge to rule that the accounts are dead and that they are entitled to both the money and the accrued interest.

The price of Ismay was -- one million Canadian dollars, with accrued interest, because Francis had not been drawing heavily on his income.