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accrued

accrued

5.2
Money or benefits that build up over time
  • adjective
  • /əˈkruːd/
translation icon : acumulado
  • The interest on his savings account has accrued steadily over the years.

And to thread it through with newly accrued and acquired wisdom.

Examples

  • So he's suggesting basically these debts that are accrued by tenants and owners should be paid for.

  • And to thread it through with newly accrued and acquired wisdom.

  • And so as I'm looking up all the studies that I accrued and started reading them even closer and I go, wait a minute.

  • And, you know, I, I emerged from accrued from that lawsuit, you know, OK.

  • After years of hard work, she finally received her accrued benefits from the company.

  • He was pleased to see that his accrued vacation days allowed him to take a long trip this summer.

Antonyms

diminished
  • Specialized
4.4

Smaller in size, strength or importance

Surface Forms

accrued positive

Morphology

accrued = accrue (transparent) = accrue + ed

Standard past-participial/adjectival formation from the verb 'accrue', so the relation to the base verb is direct and regular.

Etymology

The word accrued comes from an old Latin verb crescere meaning 'to grow', the same basic idea as the English word increase. So accrued money or leave is something that has 'grown' little by little over time and is now due to you.