Accrue vs Cumulate - What's the difference?
accrue | cumulate |
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-
In intransitive terms the difference between accrue and cumulate
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 cumulate is to be accumulated.As an adjective cumulate is
accumulated, agglomerated, amassed.accrue
English
(wikipedia accrue)Verb
(accru)- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.