Occurred vs Accrued - What's the difference?
occurred | accrued |
(occur)
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 ,
(label) To be present or found.
(accrue)
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.
(legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
English words prefixed with ad-
As verbs the difference between occurred and accrued
is that occurred is (occur) while accrued is (accrue).occurred
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(head)occur
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(occurr)- 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, [...]
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* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)accrued
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(head)Anagrams
*accrue
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(wikipedia accrue)Verb
(accru)- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.