Accrued vs Acquired - What's the difference?
accrued | acquired |
(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-
(acquire)
(medicine) Developed postfetally; not congenital.
As verbs the difference between accrued and acquired
is that accrued is (accrue) while acquired is (acquire).As an adjective acquired is
(medicine) developed postfetally; not congenital.accrued
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*accrue
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(wikipedia accrue)Verb
(accru)- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.