Accrue vs Acquire - What's the difference?
accrue | acquire |
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-
To get.
To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
As verbs the difference between accrue and acquire
is that 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 while acquire is to get.As a noun accrue
is something that accrues; advantage accruing.accrue
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(wikipedia accrue)Verb
(accru)- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
Antonyms
* (accounting) amortizeNoun
(en noun)acquire
English
Verb
(acquir)- No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
- Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
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