accrue

  1. Verb.  To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
  2. Verb.  (accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

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