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# accrued

verb, past form of accrue (accrue, accrues, accrued, accruing); adjective (accrued)

«accrued» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (formal) Built up or collected little by little over time: the interest accrued over the years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#m1)
2. (formal, money) Owed or earned but not yet paid: accrued interest, accrued holiday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#m2)

### In the lessons

A stiff word from banking, business and exam questions. In maths problems on savings it means the interest that has added up in an account; in everyday talk people say "built up" or "added up". Phrases: accrued interest, accrued benefits, accrued over time.

### Examples

- (formal) The savings account accrued 12 dollars of interest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#x1)
- Over the summer, the library fines accrued. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#x2)
- (formal) Calculate the total interest accrued after three years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#x3)
- Mum has accrued five extra days of holiday at work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#x4)
- Dust had accrued on the old piano. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#x5)
- (formal) The accrued points may be exchanged for a prize. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/#x6)

### Note

Regular verb: accrue, accrued, accruing. Formal; the everyday word is "built up". In maths, accrued interest is added to the starting money: 200 plus 12 accrued gives 212.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «accrued» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accrued/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«accrued» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/accrued.html) on Mova free.