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accrued expense UK US noun [C] (also accrued charge, also accrued cost, also accrued liability, also accrual) ACCOUNTING
► an amount of money that a business owes in a particular period which it records in its accounts but that it does not pay in that period: »
The company's accrued expenses for the environmental clean-up amounted to $118 million.
Financial and business terms. 2012.