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Occurred vs Accrued - What's the difference?

occurred | accrued |

As verbs the difference between occurred and accrued

is that occurred is (occur) while accrued is (accrue).

occurred

English

Verb

(head)
  • (occur)

  • occur

    English

    Verb

    (occurr)
  • To happen or take place.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred , but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
  • To present or offer (itself).
  • (label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
  • * 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,
  • Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]
  • (label) To be present or found.
  • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    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-