Accrue

//əˈkɹu//

"Accrue" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Many advantages accrue to society from the freedom of speech.

Benefits accrue to the community from reconstruction.

Interest will begin to accrue after the first year.

It was not stated whether he would be paid monthly, as is the department’s custom, or let it accrue to the end of the year.

And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue

Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.

1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE Interest accrues to principal.

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

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

He has accrued nine sick days.

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We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part, In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart, Which to that other Mortal shall accrew, Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.

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