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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incur
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
incur a chargeformal (= result in you paying a charge)
▪ All cancellations incur a charge.
incur an expenseformal (= have to pay for something)
▪ Potential buyers incur the expense of a survey and legal fees.
incur liability (=be in a situation in which you must take responsibility for something)
▪ The transfer of property will not incur a liability to inheritance tax.
incur sb’s displeasure (=make someone displeased)
incurring...wrath
▪ He was scared of incurring his father’s wrath.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Dhalia produced some effective, speedy long range punching but also incurred the wrath of referee Ron Hackett for frequent clinching.
▪ This card-based account also incurs a £3 fee for counter transactions and a £5 fee for third-party credits.
▪ The alternative, allowing individuals or individual committees to operate without supervision, would also incur costs.
■ NOUN
charge
▪ Courts not cancelled will incur a NO-SHOW additional charge.
▪ The company is expected to incur an unspecified restructuring charge during the next fiscal year, which will begin Feb. 1.
▪ If you incur bank charges, some banks operate a slightly cheaper tariff for direct debits because they are more easily handled.
▪ Phoenix expects to incur a one-time charge of $ 1 million to cover severance and relocation costs associated with the move.
▪ Transfers made within 10 working days of the seminar will incur a 15% administrative charge.
▪ All cancellations incur a charge payable by you to compensate us for our offices.
▪ This second loan will incur inflated interest charges.
▪ If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied, management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge.
company
▪ The principal disadvantage is that a limited company invariably incurs some additional costs.
▪ The company expects to incur one-time expenses through mid-1999 associated with the integration of these businesses.
▪ The company is expected to incur an unspecified restructuring charge during the next fiscal year, which will begin Feb. 1.
cost
▪ So the maintenance costs are incurred on the vehicle itself, and not the track.
▪ Whatever the merits of such proposals, they would operate only at the margins of the costs that most families incur.
▪ These costs should not be incurred unless they are needed.
▪ To encourage employers to provide health benefits, the cost they incur could be credited toward the minimum-wage increase.
▪ The cost is incurred at the point in time when the plant is built.
▪ At this point, the organization has an opportunity to address and pay the costs it has incurred.
▪ Whilst the introduction of competition will undoubtedly benefit some aspects of efficiency, additional costs might also be incurred.
▪ We have calculated a $ 3 per household recommendation to offset these additional costs incurred during the holidays.
costs
▪ The contractor is paid for the actual costs he incurs plus a previously agreed lump sum for his overheads and profit.
▪ At this point, the organization has an opportunity to address and pay the costs it has incurred.
▪ Whilst the introduction of competition will undoubtedly benefit some aspects of efficiency, additional costs might also be incurred.
▪ I would be pleased to reimburse any costs incurred.
▪ Sometimes such costs are incurred by a party other than the developer, typically where the tenant completes the fitting out of the building.
▪ If such costs are incurred in calculating a self-supply charge, tax could be paid twice.
▪ It would also mean that any changes to the system at this stage could be rectified without high costs being incurred.
▪ These costs are incurred every time the individual participates in sport.
debt
▪ The government's debt, incurred buying energy supplies on credit, was rising, according to Godmanis.
▪ The rest were weighed down by an accumulation of debts incurred during the wars and natural disasters of the preceding century.
▪ Generally you have two choices: where your debtor lives or carries on his business, or where the debt was incurred.
▪ There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes.
▪ The debts that these governments incurred, by whatever means and for whatever purposes, have been repaid many times over.
▪ Naturally, large external debts were incurred to banks, foreign governments and world agencies.
disapproval
▪ John Browne had been sacked in Winchester while others who had incurred the disapproval of their local parties had gone quietly.
displeasure
▪ Who would dare incur our displeasure?
▪ I had no interest I am sure to incur your displeasure.
▪ A few may be ruled out because they have incurred their party s displeasure.
expenditure
▪ If any operating division wishes to incur capital expenditure, it submits an appraisal form to the Finance Director.
▪ Relying on these reports, Hedley Byrne incurred expenditure and lost money when its customer went into liquidation.
expense
▪ All the expense is incurred during development of a new construction program, rather than in the manufacturing process itself.
▪ Harrowing for the patient, not to mention the expense incurred.
▪ Considerable expense is incurred because of the requirement for the annual publication of audited accounts.
expenses
▪ You can not claim from your husband or wife any out of pocket expenses you may incur under the simplified procedure.
▪ Also payable are any expenses you incur with our written consent.
▪ Most expenses that your employee incurs for your business are deductible above-the-line.
▪ I heard my parents talk about the huge expenses incurred and more to come.
▪ There has been good response from advertisers resulting in relatively small expenses being incurred.
▪ Symington reported that no state expenses had been incurred during the trip.
fee
▪ After that date any name changes will incur an Amendment Fee - see page 11.
▪ It represents a rare opportunity to bring your own bottle, without incurring a corkage fee.
▪ This card-based account also incurs a £3 fee for counter transactions and a £5 fee for third-party credits.
▪ The force of that competition is indicated by the costs that firms incur and the fees that they charge clients.
injury
▪ He has given the players a week off training to avoid incurring any injuries.
▪ They also have incurred some important injuries, including the loss of first-string quarterback Steve Young for several games.
▪ Therefore you may find that a bandage is not allowed if you didn't incur the injury in that day's competition.
▪ Willy was propelled through the windscreen on to the wall: that's how he incurred such nasty head injuries.
▪ He incurred both injuries in the 35-28 win over the Atlanta Falcons Oct. 19.
liability
▪ Suggested approach An employer can incur tortious liability in respect of his employees in one of three ways.
loss
▪ Operating losses incurred were £427,000 with further £524,000 losses arising from the disposal of Applied Skills for Management.
▪ On the other hand, a lot of little losses incurred every day can sink even the biggest of big ideas.
▪ It is not satisfactory where a significant separate item of loss is incurred at a particular time.
▪ On the other hand, if the firm falls short of covering its fixed costs, a loss will be incurred.
▪ Celsus is concerned with a case in which somebody has promised that he will ensure no loss is incurred by another person.
▪ Claims rocketed, and as confirmed at today's annual meeting a three billion pound loss was incurred for 1990.
▪ That is, he must show that the loss incurred was caused by the insider's actions.
obligation
▪ Loans would only incur future debt obligations, thereby hindering growth.
▪ In either case, however, the business has the use of the asset and incurs a monthly payment obligation.
▪ The facility of incurring the first obligation became a temptation to a second.
penalty
▪ They will therefore incur a late filing penalty as well as interest on the unpaid tax.
▪ Secondly, Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties.
▪ In the usual case of several projects running in parallel it incurs economic penalties.
▪ Too fast would tire the horse unnecessarily while going too slow would incur time penalties.
▪ The larger the pack the more liberal the usage so it is often worth incurring a packaging cost penalty.
▪ However, being inside the time does not incur either penalties or bonus points.
▪ You need to establish whether you would incur redemption penalties if you switched the mortgage elsewhere.
risk
▪ There must be some way she could make an approach without incurring too great a risk of rejection.
▪ Greedy for profits and market share, they shaved profit margins and incurred unwarranted risks.
▪ However, it must be remembered that to do this of itself would incur an exchange risk.
tax
▪ Relatively few people incur a capital gains tax bill because of index linking and the offsetting effect of the personal tax allowance.
▪ But if you own stocks, as opposed to funds, you yourself can decide when you want to incur those taxes.
▪ If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied, management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge.
▪ Yet the panel did not subtract the substantial liabilities Simpson has incurred, including tax bills, attorneys fees and bank loans.
wrath
▪ If any of the beaters did incur his wrath, they were sent home.
▪ To use live penguins, while adding an audible dimension, might incur the wrath of the animal rights lobby.
▪ Dhalia produced some effective, speedy long range punching but also incurred the wrath of referee Ron Hackett for frequent clinching.
▪ To deny this magic is to incur the wrath of a great number of people.
▪ Always a forthright woman, she incurred the wrath of the anti-abolitionists and her life was threatened.
▪ This incurred great wrath on the part of my father, who finally issued an execution order.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The auto manufacturer incurred a $843.6 million loss in 1990.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because of this possibility, shareholders will have to incur monitoring costs or agency costs to ensure that managers behave properly.
▪ If you incur bank charges, some banks operate a slightly cheaper tariff for direct debits because they are more easily handled.
▪ In addition, the legal expenses incurred in the dispute between the partners were incurred to protect and preserve the partnership's assets.
▪ So the maintenance costs are incurred on the vehicle itself, and not the track.
▪ The force of that competition is indicated by the costs that firms incur and the fees that they charge clients.
▪ They also have incurred some important injuries, including the loss of first-string quarterback Steve Young for several games.
▪ We have calculated a $ 3 per household recommendation to offset these additional costs incurred during the holidays.
▪ We have increased housing support grant so that all local authorities that incur a deficit in running a hostel will qualify for grant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incur

Incur \In*cur"\, v. i. To pass; to enter. [Obs.]

Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye.
--South.

Incur

Incur \In*cur"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Incurring.] [L. incurrere to run into or toward; pref. in- in + currere to run. See Current.]

  1. To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure, penalty, responsibility, etc.

    I know not what I shall incur to pass it, Having no warrant.
    --Shak.

  2. To render liable or subject to; to occasion. [Obs.]

    Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.
    --Chapman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incur

early 15c., from Anglo-French encurir, Middle French encourir, from Latin incurrere "run into or against, rush at, make an attack;" figuratively, "to befall, happen, occur to," from in- "upon" (see in- (2)) + currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). Related: Incurred; incurring.

Wiktionary
incur

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to. 2 (context chiefly legal English) To render somebody liable or subject to. 3 (context obsolete transitive English) To enter or pass into. 4 (context obsolete intransitive English) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger. 5 (context transitive English) To render liable or subject to; to occasion.

WordNet
incur

  1. v. make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health"

  2. receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain]

  3. [also: incurring, incurred]

Usage examples of "incur".

It seemed to me therefore that if I should get the Bill amended and then it got lost, I should incur the great reproach of having obstinately set up my judgment against that of this large number of the ablest men in the country, who were so deeply interested in the matter.

And by my supremely rash act I have incurred his vengeance, for Hassan of Aleppo is the self-appointed guardian of the traditions and relics of Mohammed.

Even a particular pardon, granted six years after to the earl of Arundel, was annulled by parliament, on pretence that it had been procured by surprise, and that the king was not then fully apprized of the degree of guilt incurred by that nobleman.

As it happened, the counterattack had interrupted a Cheeta Ching newscast-thereby incurring the bitter enmity of the Master of Sinanju.

To indulge somewhat, I repeat: for whoever allow themselves much of that indulgence, incur the risk of something worse than disparaging speeches- they are in peril of a commission de lunatico, and of having their property taken from them and given to their relations.

For a great portion of the debts had been incurred for some diamond ear-rings which the queen herself did not wish for, and had only bought to gratify Madame de Polignac, who had promised her custom to the jeweler who had them for sale.

So formidable were these positions that, amid much outspoken criticism, it has never been suggested that White would have been justified with a limited garrison in incurring the heavy loss of life which must have followed an attempt to force them.

Every one of them began practicing, to work out the kinks incurred during this latest layoff, and to experiment with new tricks and turns.

But it sometimes happens that those who are already ordained as priests incur defects whereby they are hindered from celebrating, such as leprosy or epilepsy, or the like.

Rather let me endure the severest mortification that neglect and penury can inflict, than lessen myself in my own estimation, and by yielding to the erroneous prejudices of the multitude, justly incur the censure of the most worthy and discerning.

Wherefore, if man turns inordinately to a mutable good, without turning from God, as happens in venial sins, he incurs a debt, not of eternal but of temporal punishment.

Consequently it is in no way possible for the stain of past sins and the debt of punishment incurred thereby, to return, as caused by those acts.

Much more therefore he that sins against God after being freed from sin, returns to the debt of as great a punishment as he had incurred before.

Therefore the debt of punishment incurred through subsequent sins is not equal to that of sins previously forgiven.

Some have maintained that the debt of punishment incurred through ingratitude in respect of a subsequent sin is equal to that of the sins previously pardoned, in addition to the debt proper to this subsequent sin.