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anwachsen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accrual noun An amount of income or expense that has been earned or incurred but not yet received or paid, recorded in the accounts for the period it belongs to.
  • accrue verb To increase, to rise
  • increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.

Senses

anwachsen is used for these senses in English:

  • accretion (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
  • accrual An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
  • accrue (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  • increase For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
  • increase (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.

accrual — full definition

  1. noun An amount of income or expense that has been earned or incurred but not yet received or paid, recorded in the accounts for the period it belongs to.
  2. noun The gradual build-up of something over time, such as interest, holiday entitlement or benefits.

accrue — full definition

  1. verb To increase, to rise
  2. verb 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.
  3. verb To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  4. verb To accumulate.

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