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Accrued vs Cumulative - What's the difference?

accrued | cumulative |

As a verb accrued

is (accrue).

As an adjective cumulative is

incorporating all data up to the present.

accrued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (accrue)
  • Anagrams

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    accrue

    English

    (wikipedia accrue)

    Verb

    (accru)
  • To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
  • * And though power failed, her courage did accrue -
  • * Interest accrues to principal - Abbott
  • * The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press - Junius
  • (accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  • The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
  • (legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
  • Antonyms

    * (accounting) amortize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
  • English words prefixed with ad-

    cumulative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incorporating all data up to the present
  • That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
  • * Francis Bacon
  • As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
  • * Trench
  • The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .
  • That tends to accumulate
  • (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
  • Derived terms

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