(accrues, accruing, accrued)
1.
If money or interest accrues or if you accrue it, it gradually increases in amount over a period of time. (BUSINESS)
I owed ?5,000-part of this was accrued interest...
If you do not pay within 28 days, interest will accrue...
Officials say the options will offer investors a longer time in which to accrue profits.
= accumulate
VERB: V-ed, V, V n
2.
If things such as profits or benefits accrue to someone, they are added to over a period of time. (FORMAL)
...the expectation that profits will accrue.
...a project from which considerable benefit will accrue to the community...
VERB: V, V to n