to incur
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6.2
- verb
- /ɪnˈkɜr/
- Formal
- He regretted the decision because it would incur additional costs for the project.
- incur costs
- incur expenses
- incur debts
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Watch on YouTubeEvery lie we tell ourselves incurs a debt to the truth.
- Every lie we tell ourselves incurs a debt to the truth.
- What cost did you incur by by doing that?
- Don't lie, don't steal, don't, you know, don't incur debt and not pay it back.
- The bills pile up, utilities are cut off, debts are incurred.
- So you've got to weigh the risk of incurring that.
- Greensill said its clients didn't incur any losses from those defaults as they were insured.
- Got to tell you there is no path forward that lifts the pain without incurring other pain.
- And so it's basically a way to harm your same sex rivals reputations without incurring social penalties.
- So they want to engage in the sexual activity but not incur the social costs of that that being known.
- OK, so under EU law, overdue invoices owed by state connected entities incur a guaranteed penalty interest rate.
- What you believed family would look like may be upended by narcissism and the losses that you may incur once you see it clearly.
- None of that is all very intuitive and the players understand by intuition what are the risks they are incurring and they're fine with that.
- So if we don't want to incur those things, then we want to be just.
Examples
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In addition, software companies, user companies, and universities may incur additional costs because of software piracy.
Academic text (1991) -
The nation had just incurred four horrible years of Civil War.
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What cost did you incur by by doing that?
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Well, hopefully you guys will incur some of the cost.
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You know, all the debt that we incur, you know, the next future generations have to bear the burden.
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That seems right that a lot of a lot of people are willing to incur financial costs in order to promote an agenda.
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But to a certain extent, any risk that you incur is something that's potentially going to damage you.
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I'm sensitive to like the costs that are incurred because of this.
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Even though she'd never been charged with a crime, she had incurred an amazing sum of attorneys' fees.
Fiction book (2002) -
Left-behind parents also incur significant financial expenses trying to locate and secure the return of their abducted children.
Academic text (2017)
Antonyms
How Serious
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2.0
- Formal
69
6.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Incur comes from the Latin parts in- meaning 'into' and currere meaning 'to run', so it originally meant 'to run into' something. That's why to incur a cost or a problem is to bring it on yourself because of something you did.