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
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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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Stack up as a verb (transitive):
To put into a stack
Examples:
"Stack up the boxes."
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Stack up as a verb (intransitive):
to pile up; to accumulate
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Stack up as a verb (idiomatic, transitive):
To put a group of abstract things together.
Examples:
"to stack up memories"
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Stack up as a verb:
To compare with (something); to measure up. (Often used with or .)