accrual

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of accruing; accumulation.
  2. (countable, uncountable) An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
  3. (countable, uncountable) 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.
  4. (countable, uncountable) Recruitment (of participants) to a clinical trial.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈkɹuːəl/
Etymology

From accrue + -al.

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