accrual
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈkɹuːəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
accrual (plural accruals)
- The act or process of accruing; accumulation.
- 1984 August 11, Janice Irvine, “Secrets of Fear, Shame, and Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 9:
- The effect of her alcoholism wasn't over, of course, and our relationship continues well past her death. What did change was that the accrual of new events stopped. I didn't have to worry about her anymore. She would never drink again.
- An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
- 1985, Medury Bhaskara Rao, Foreign Collaboration Agreements: Some Issues: an Intensive Study of Income-tax, Foreign Exchange & Other Related Problems, page 104:
- The finding out of the source accrual or arisal of income is not material as the incidence of charge is dependent on the place of accrual or arisal of income.
- (accounting) from the creditor's viewpoint, a charge incurred in one accounting period that has not been, but is to be, paid by the end of it.
- (health sciences) Recruitment (of participants) to a clinical trial.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “accounting”): deferral, prepayment
Derived terms
Translations
an increase
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an accounting charge
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