The difference between Accrue and Stack up

When used as verbs, accrue means to increase, to augment, whereas stack up means to put into a stack.


Accrue is also noun with the meaning: something that accrues.

check bellow for the other definitions of Accrue and Stack up

  1. 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.

  2. 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."

  3. Accrue as a verb (transitive):

    to accumulate

    Examples:

    "He has accrued nine sick days."

  4. Accrue as a verb (intransitive, legal):

    To become an enforceable and permanent right.

  1. Accrue as a noun (obsolete):

    Something that accrues; advantage accruing

  1. Stack up as a verb (transitive):

    To put into a stack

    Examples:

    "Stack up the boxes."

  2. Stack up as a verb (intransitive):

    to pile up; to accumulate

  3. Stack up as a verb (idiomatic, transitive):

    To put a group of abstract things together.

    Examples:

    "to stack up memories"

  4. Stack up as a verb:

    To compare with (something); to measure up. (Often used with or .)