Usually means: Accumulate or receive over time.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. accrue: Merriam-Webster
  2. accrue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accrue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accrue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accrue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accrue, accrue: Wordnik
  7. accrue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. accrue: Wiktionary
  9. accrue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accrue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accrue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. accrue: Dictionary.com
  13. accrue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. accrue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Accrue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Accrue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. accrue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. accrue: Rhymezone
  19. Accrue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. accrue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. accrue: FreeDictionary.org
  22. accrue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. accrue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. accrue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. accrue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. accrue: Merriam-Webster

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. accrue: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. accrue: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. accrue: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Accrue: Investopedia
  10. accrue: Legal dictionary
  11. accrue: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accrue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accrue: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accrue: Idioms

(Note: See accruable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To increase, to rise
verb:  (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
verb:  (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
verb:  (transitive) To accumulate.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
noun:  (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

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