accrue

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  1. intransitive verb To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment: interest accruing in my savings account.
  2. intransitive verb To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth: common sense that accrues with experience.
  3. intransitive verb To come into existence as a claim that is legally enforceable.
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  • "I will pay you your winnings as they accrue, day by day, as long as the three games pieces live Too bad you only had three pieces," said Kejstvil. —  AEon Four
  • For those of us who follow the set lists online, Dylan songs are like currency: They accrue or shed their value based on the number of times they are played on tour. —  Expecting Rain
  • No. Under the Cooperative's Certificate of Incorporation, cumulated dividends on Class A cumulative preferred stock do not accrue or receive interest. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • I wanted to do also talk about the franchising in the Caribbean that you mentioned and whether there is any themes that accrue or collect at that timing that layout the revenue streams from those new agreements and maybe thoughts on timing of actual store openings? —  Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • Whatever costs accrue, they'll pay for by slashing the private Medicare Advantage option. —  Guarino
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accrue:   accruing ·  accrued ·  accrues
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  1. Middle English acreuen, from Old French acreu, past participle of acroistre, to increase, add, from Latin accrēscere, to grow : ad-, ad- + crēscere, to arise; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also written accrew (now obsolete), from late Middle English *acrewe, found only in the clipped form crewe (later English crew), and in the verb acrewe, accrue; from Old French acrewe, acreue, that which grows up, to the profit of the owner, on the earth or in a wood, later “accreue, a growth, increase, eeking, augmentation” (Cotgrave), orig. feminine of acreu, “accreu, growne, increased” (Cotgrave), (Anglo-French acru), past participle of acreistre (Anglo-French acrestre), later accroistre, modern F. accroître, from Latin accrescere, grow, accrease, accresce, increase: see accrease, accresce. Hence by abbreviation crue, crew: see crew, and cf. recruit.
  2. Also written accrew (now obsolete), from Middle English acrewe, v., from acrewe, n.: see accrue, n.
 

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