Usually means: Accumulates or increases over time.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word accrues:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. accrues: Merriam-Webster
  2. accrues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accrues: Collins English Dictionary
  4. accrues: Vocabulary.com
  5. accrues: Wordnik
  6. accrues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. accrues: Wiktionary
  8. accrues: Dictionary.com
  9. accrues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. accrues: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. accrues: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. accrues: Legal dictionary
  3. accrues: Financial dictionary

(Note: See accrue as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (accrue)

verb:  (intransitive) To increase, to rise
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
verb:  (transitive) To accumulate.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
noun:  (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
▸ Also see accrue


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