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Definition

grow by addition - especially money over time

More rarely, "accrue" can also mean to "come into the possession of"

Money in the bank account accrues interest.

The house accrued to the oldest son.
Benefits accrue from the employee's first day on payroll.
Little by little a force had accrued, as secret and silent as interest in a bank account.
Stephen King -- The Shining
I have a few years of leave accrued.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
What I want is, that you should write to your sisters and tell them of the fortune that has accrued to them.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
For the most part, their armor protected them from cuts, but it did not protect them from lumps and bruises, of which they accrued many.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
His accent was faintly British, the years in America having softened it, but without accruing any jarring American inflections.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
Vacations don't accrue until the second year.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
The nation is lulled by the temporary prosperity which accrues to it, until it is roused to a sense of its own misery.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
It went on and on, finally stating that if he died she was to receive "all proceeds" accruing to the company, "both gross and net."
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
And if there's no ingress or egress—no valve through which may be vented the various pressures that accrue naturally in a closed temporal system—"
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
If you accrued 100,000 points, you got a shotgun.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
What earthly benefit can accrue from such a crime-even in the most diseased imagination?
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
He walked to the top of a rise and crouched and watched the day accrue.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
It's been accruing while you've been away.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Only when we began to make cautious overtures to each other did any of the system's mystique accrue to us.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
But above all other benefits accruing, I had learned something.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Then there were other benefits accruing to Marija from this friendship—benefits of a more substantial nature.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

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