accruing
Gathering over time
Accruing is the present participle of accrue, meaning to accumulate or grow 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 gradually come to them: The advantages accruing to early investors were substantial.
The word appears frequently in financial and legal contexts.
Increasing by successive additions
- incrementalProceeding by small additions
- compoundingElements merging progressively
- buildingEnclosed roofed structure
- mountingSteadily increasing in degree
growing · progressive · stepwise · additive · escalating · amassing · aggregating · snowballing
Attention, stake, or fee
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
- returnsProfits from investments
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- compoundCombined into one
earnings · investment · portfolio · securities · bonds · annuities · equity · assets
cumulative
Increasing by successive additions
- incrementalProceeding by small additions
- compoundingElements merging progressively
- buildingEnclosed roofed structure
mounting · growing · progressive · stepwise · additive · escalating · amassing · aggregating · snowballing · multiplying
interest
Attention, stake, or fee
compound · earnings · investment · portfolio · securities · bonds · annuities · equity · assets · revenue
advantages
Favorable factors or conditions
- perksAdditional job advantages
- rewardsBenefits given for merit
- privilegesRights granted to some
entitlements · bonuses · gains · value · profit · blessings · windfalls · seniority · tenure · credits
effortless
Requiring no strain
residuals · licensing · patents · inheritance · pensions · endowment · hands-off · automatic · recurring · steady
- business proceduresrecording, processing, documenting, approving, verifying
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- acquiringobtaining, getting, grabbing, seizing, taking
accruingdepleting
Progressively using up
diminishing · decreasing · dwindling · shrinking · declining
accruingdispersing
Spreading widely apart
distributing · disseminating · scattering · spending · disbursing
accrue, accumulate, accumulation, accumulated, accumulating, accrual, accrued, accumulative, accrues