as in to accumulate
to increase in amount as time passes
They accrued vacation time throughout the calendar year. A penny-pincher who is accruing a fortune by spending next to nothing.
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Recent Examples of accrue
Management spent most of the season before signing Klingberg with a lean roster to accrue as much cap space as possible for pre-deadline use.
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
Elites justify giving them the most dangerous work in part because there are potential benefits accruing to those doing the jobs: inmate firefighters generally get time off of their sentences, just as some enslaved firefighters could buy their own freedom.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
Some were frustrated the state is also not paying off its $20 billion in unemployment debt accrued during the COVID-19 pandemic.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2025
Hourly employees who accrued 1,850 or more compensated hours during 2024 will receive the full payout.
—Jamie L. Lareau, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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Yes, those picks are great, and Dubas has done a fine job of accumulating them.—
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This was the kind of odd, even morbid artifact that SNL has accumulated in spades over the years—and the 50th-anniversary celebration could have benefited from digging up more of them.—
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Find out exactly when to start planting tomatoes to avoid frost damage and maximize growing time.—
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The case alleged that those donations were funneled through U.S. citizens to mask their origins and maximized with taxpayer dollars through the city’s public matching funds program.—
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The critical darling — which collected $600,000 in previews, is tracking to open in the $15 million to $17 million range domestically.—
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Before his pension was suspended, McClain collected $313,800 in legislative pension payments.—
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“Accrue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accrue. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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