The difference between Accrue and Amortize
When used as verbs, accrue means to increase, to augment, whereas amortize means to alienate (property) in mortmain.
Accrue is also noun with the meaning: something that accrues.
check bellow for the other definitions of Accrue and Amortize
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Accrue as a verb (intransitive):
To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
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Accrue as a verb (intransitive, accounting):
To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
Examples:
"The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses."
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Accrue as a verb (transitive):
to accumulate
Examples:
"He has accrued nine sick days."
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Accrue as a verb (intransitive, legal):
To become an enforceable and permanent right.
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Accrue as a noun (obsolete):
Something that accrues; advantage accruing
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Amortize as a verb (transitive):
To alienate (property) in mortmain.
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Amortize as a verb (transitive):
To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
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Amortize as a verb (transitive, computer science):
To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.