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語源

First attested in mid 15th century. From 中期英語 acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”). Compare accrete.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈkɹuː/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈkɹu/

• 韻: -uː

動詞

accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)

1. (intransitive) To increase, to rise
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue

2. (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.

   Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.

   • 1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE

     Interest accrues to principal.

   • 1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface:

     The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press

3. (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.

   The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.

4. (transitive) To accumulate.

   He has accrued nine sick days.

   • 1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew:

     We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,

     In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,

     Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,

     Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.

5. (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

   Synonym: inure

同意語

• (increase): rise; accrete; see also Thesaurus:increase
• (accumulate): add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “accounting”): amortize, defer, prepay

派生語

関連する語

• accretion
• accresce
• accrete
• crescent

名詞

accrue (plural accrues)

1. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

Further reading

• “accrue”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “accrue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.