accrue
Build up naturally
Accrue means to accumulate gradually over time, especially through regular addition.
Interest accrues on savings accounts; vacation days accrue with each pay period.
Benefits or consequences that accrue to someone come to them naturally as a result of circumstances: The advantages that accrue to wealth.
The word implies steady growth rather than sudden gain.
Combined into one
- amassCollect in quantity
- collectBring items together
- gatherBring or come together
- aggregateCombined sum total
cumulate · buildup · stockpile · consolidate · heap · mass · pile · accretion
Attention, stake, or fee
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
- earningsMoney gained from work
- revenueBusiness income total
- profitGain exceeding expenditure
capital · assets · equity · balance · ledger · bookkeeping · depreciation · amortization
Proceeding by small additions
- cumulativeIncreasing by successive additions
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- gradualDeveloping slowly over time
- stepwiseProceeding by degrees
piecemeal · phased · over time · bit-by-bit · steady · continuous · compounding · additive
compound
Combined into one
aggregate · cumulate · buildup · stockpile · consolidate · heap · mass · pile · accretion · snowball
interest
Attention, stake, or fee
profit · capital · assets · equity · balance · ledger · bookkeeping · depreciation · amortization · capitalization
incremental
Proceeding by small additions
- cumulativeIncreasing by successive additions
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- gradualDeveloping slowly over time
stepwise · piecemeal · phased · over time · bit-by-bit · steady · continuous · compounding · additive · sequential
gain
Positive return received
bonus · return · surplus · windfall · proceeds · payoff · boon · enrichment · entitlement · perquisite
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increasing
- build upamass, pile up, snowball, escalate, intensify
- gathering verbsgather, collect, amass, compile, assemble
- accounting verbsaudit, balance, budget, credit, debit
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- additionsum, plus, add, addend, addition
- accrued interestEarnings accumulated but unpaid
- accrued leaveEarned unused time off