Accrue vs Accrual - What's the difference?
accrue | accrual |
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-
An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
(accounting) a charge incurred in one accounting period that has not been paid by the end of it.
As nouns the difference between accrue and accrual
is that accrue is something that accrues; advantage accruing while accrual is an increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose.As a verb accrue
is 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.accrue
English
(wikipedia accrue)Verb
(accru)- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.