accrued

[ uh-krood ]

adjective

1. added as a matter of periodic gain or advantage, as interest on money:

   Each year, grants from the accrued interest on the trust fund are awarded to agencies and programs serving the Navajo Nation.

2. happening or coming as or through a natural growth or addition; accumulated:

   The handmade ornaments speak of generations of accrued skill and a high degree of workmanship.

3. Law. noting a right or demand that has become present and enforceable:

   Termination will not affect the accrued rights of either party under this Agreement.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of accrue ( def ).

Other Words From

• non·ac·crued adjective
• un·ac·crued adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of accrued¹

accrue ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

By maintaining one page that you update on a yearly basis, you open up the ability to accrue links year-over-year rather than needing to “reset” with each new year, ultimately saving you a lot of time and resources.

From Search Engine Watch

When the WEF annual meeting convenes in May next year, Singapore will have accrued months of experience in managing pandemic-era travel, likely while maintaining low infection rates.

From Fortune

Cumulatively, the affiliate content accrued more than 3 million views over Cyber Week.

From Digiday

Cities control the local roadside and passthrough streets and the revenue accrued through parking solutions.

From TechCrunch

They accrued significant goodwill along the way, but also suffered high-profile defeats in the last two postseasons.

From Washington Post

He takes careful sips while passing down the collective knowledge of his ancestors, accrued over countless generations.

From The Daily Beast

Still, Diamond is finding the reputation he's accrued over the past decade hard to lose.

From The Daily Beast

The show looked and felt nothing like the one that accrued eight seasons of fans.

From The Daily Beast

He goes beyond Haass to focus on the immense profits that accrued to American contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

From The Daily Beast

The petition has accrued 413 signatures so far, as well as multiple comments of support.

From The Daily Beast

That event was not likely to happen; for, since the grant had been made, a new arrear of tithes had accrued.

From Project Gutenberg

That week she sent me two hundred dollars, which paid our board-bill and debts accrued on telephone, telegraph and cable messages.

From Project Gutenberg

Give them five thousand dollars and draw a year's interest for yourself out of my interest that has accrued.

From Project Gutenberg

More reputation for this sort of knowledge accrued to Mr. Cooper from Precaution than from his subsequent real work on England.

From Project Gutenberg

Brilliant results accrued from all this participation in the general life of Germany.

From Project Gutenberg