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{
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"word": "amortize"
},
{
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"word": "defer"
},
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"(intransitive) To increase, to rise"
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"sense": "increase",
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{
"text": "1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE\nInterest accrues to principal."
},
{
"text": "1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface\nThe great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press"
}
],
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"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."
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"(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."
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"text": "The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.",
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"word": "hua"
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"text": "He has accrued nine sick days.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "1709, John Dryden, \"Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death\" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew",
"text": "We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,\nIn all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,\nWhich to that other Mortal shall accrew,\nWhom of our Matter Time shall mould anew."
}
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