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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
Barry Eichengreen

Meaning of "incur" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INCUR

From Latin incurrere to run into, from currere to run.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INCUR

incur  [ɪnˈkɜː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incur is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb incur in English.

WHAT DOES INCUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of incur in the English dictionary

The definition of incur in the dictionary is to make oneself subject to ; bring upon oneself. Other definition of incur is to run into or encounter.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INCUR

PRESENT

Present
I incur
you incur
he/she/it incurs
we incur
you incur
they incur
Present continuous
I am incurring
you are incurring
he/she/it is incurring
we are incurring
you are incurring
they are incurring
Present perfect
I have incurred
you have incurred
he/she/it has incurred
we have incurred
you have incurred
they have incurred
Present perfect continuous
I have been incurring
you have been incurring
he/she/it has been incurring
we have been incurring
you have been incurring
they have been incurring
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I incurred
you incurred
he/she/it incurred
we incurred
you incurred
they incurred
Past continuous
I was incurring
you were incurring
he/she/it was incurring
we were incurring
you were incurring
they were incurring
Past perfect
I had incurred
you had incurred
he/she/it had incurred
we had incurred
you had incurred
they had incurred
Past perfect continuous
I had been incurring
you had been incurring
he/she/it had been incurring
we had been incurring
you had been incurring
they had been incurring
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will incur
you will incur
he/she/it will incur
we will incur
you will incur
they will incur
Future continuous
I will be incurring
you will be incurring
he/she/it will be incurring
we will be incurring
you will be incurring
they will be incurring
Future perfect
I will have incurred
you will have incurred
he/she/it will have incurred
we will have incurred
you will have incurred
they will have incurred
Future perfect continuous
I will have been incurring
you will have been incurring
he/she/it will have been incurring
we will have been incurring
you will have been incurring
they will have been incurring
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would incur
you would incur
he/she/it would incur
we would incur
you would incur
they would incur
Conditional continuous
I would be incurring
you would be incurring
he/she/it would be incurring
we would be incurring
you would be incurring
they would be incurring
Conditional perfect
I would have incur
you would have incur
he/she/it would have incur
we would have incur
you would have incur
they would have incur
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been incurring
you would have been incurring
he/she/it would have been incurring
we would have been incurring
you would have been incurring
they would have been incurring
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you incur
we let´s incur
you incur
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to incur
Past participle
incurred
Present Participle
incurring
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCUR


claqueur
klæˈkɜː
co-occur
ˌkəʊəˈkɜː
Coeur
kɜː
concur
kənˈkɜː
cur
kɜː
curr
kɜː
Kerr
kɜː
kir
kɜː
nonconcur
ˌnɒnkənˈkɜː
occur
əˈkɜː
recur
rɪˈkɜː
reincur
ˌriːɪnˈkɜː
reoccur
ˌriːəˈkɜː
scur
skɜː
skirr
skɜː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCUR

incunabulum
incurability
incurable
incurableness
incurably
incuriosity
incurious
incuriously
incuriousness
incurrable
incurred
incurrence
incurrent
incurring
incursion
incursive
incurvate
incurvation
incurvature
incurve

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCUR

amateur
amour
Arthur
auteur
colour
four
fur
glamour
honour
hour
humour
Kultur
our
pour
retour
sense of humour
Sur
Timur
tour
your

Synonyms and antonyms of incur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INCUR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «incur» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of incur

Translation of «incur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCUR

Find out the translation of incur to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of incur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

招致
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incurrir en
570 millions of speakers

English

incur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपने ऊपर लेना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تكبد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нести
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incorrer em
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভারাক্রান্ত করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

encourir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dikenakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erleiden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

招く
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

초래하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kena
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chịu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நேர்வதில்லை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खर्च करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uğramak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incorrere in
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ponoszenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нести
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

suporta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιφέρουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aangaan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ådra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pådra
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incur

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUR»

The term «incur» is very widely used and occupies the 19.923 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incur

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6 QUOTES WITH «INCUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word incur.
1
Giraldus Cambrensis
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
2
Frederick Douglass
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
3
Barry Eichengreen
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
4
Bram Fischer
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
5
Artie Lange
Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.
6
Robert E. Lee
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCUR»

Discover the use of incur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Business Law
It can incur liability directly, where it acts through a person sufficiency identified with it and so senior in its management, that their acts and states of mind are to be viewed as being in law that of the company. This type of liability involves an ...
Peter Gillies, 2004
2
Truth Or Economics: On the Definition, Prediction, and ...
... reduce the average total cost its users had to incur to produce their pre- discovery outputs solely by reducing their fixed costs) and (2) would increase its users' marginal cost curves (but would reduce the average total cost they had to incur to ...
Richard S. Markovits, 2008
3
Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
The persona on whom it is incumbent to register free children of slave mothers, and who shall not do so within the time and according to the mode established, shall incur a penalty for mere negligence of #100 and #200, repeated as many ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1876
4
Congressional edition
Of less than 30 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more thnn . $300 Of SO persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more than 500 Of 40 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more than 700 Of 60 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more than 1, ...
United States. Congress, 1905
5
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
Could the Ministry establish a system whereby the Authority to Incur Expenditure holder could be the district commissioner? Mr. Angatia: Mr. Deputy Spea'ker, it seems that I have been misunderstood. I have said that these officers have been  ...
6
San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ...
94fi. calling a special election for the purpose of submitting to the electors of the City and County of San Francisco propositions to incur a bonded Indebtedness of the City and County; also by Ordinance 956 gave notice that .such special ...
San Francisco (Calif.) Board of Supervisors, 1905
7
Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the ...
000 Of 300 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more than 15, 000 Of 400 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more than 20,000 Of 500 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more than 25, 000 Of 800 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more ...
United States. Bureau of Education, 1896
8
The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy ...
.If incumbered 12532 Incompact 12533 Incondite 12534 Inconfused 12535 Inconstant 12536 Incony Incur. 12537 Incorporal 12538 12539 Incorpse . . If you incur Incorrupt 12540 Incrassate 12541 . . . .Unwilling to incur • 12542 12543 Increate ...
‎1894
9
Annual Report
... specially for the pnrpose, issuo bonds to pay for a schocd- aousc site and to erect or furnish school buildings as follows: Districts — Indebtedness. Of fewer than 30 persons 5 to 20 years may incur not more than $300 Of 30 persons 5 to ...
United States. Office of Education, 1896
10
The Canada Gazette
... booms or who shall remove or disturb any “ jam ” without the permission, in writing, of the Superintendent or officer in charge, shall incur a nalty of not less than twenty dollars and not exceeding two hundred dollars for each offense.
Canada, 1906

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incur is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sharp expected to incur US$282 in operating loss during 2Q15
Sharp is expected to report an operating loss of about JPY35 billion (US$282 million) for the quarter April-June 2015, down from a profit of ... «Digitimes, Jul 15»
2
Borissov: Bulgaria will not incur losses from supporting bailout for …
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on July 17, 2015 in Bulgaria - Comments Off on Borissov: Bulgaria will not incur losses from supporting bailout for Greece. «The Sofia Globe, Jul 15»
3
General Mills (GIS) Announces 620 Job Cuts to Reduce Costs - July …
The company expects to incur about $70 million in fiscal 2016, which includes $44 million as severance expenses and $26 million of other ... «Zacks.com, Jul 15»
4
Boeing Takes Big Charge To Keep Tanker Program On Track - Forbes
Because the terms of the contract require the company to absorb any cost overruns, the government will not incur additional expense to ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
5
This Week In Energy: Oil Shows No Signs Of A Rebound Amid …
That could come out to around $550,000 per day, for two years, plus other fees that Ensco might incur from the contract cancellation. «OilPrice.com, Jul 15»
6
Pro Kabaddi League: Against odds, they made a name for themselves
Once during the rains, his home got flooded and the family had to incur huge debt to repair it. This forced him to drop out of college and take up ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
7
St. Johns Mint Festival loaded with sports tournaments
Any received after the deadline will incur a $15 late fee. Here are details: •Registration fee for the double elimination softball tournament is ... «Lansing State Journal, Jul 15»
8
Key requisites to use cloud storage for active, inactive data
AWS provides 11 9s of durability, meaning if you store 10,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can, on average, expect to incur a loss of a single ... «Tech Page One, Jul 15»
9
Cloud Peak Energy (CLD) Q2 Shipments Fell 22%; Updates FY15 …
... Company determined it will incur a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of approximately $33.4 million for the Company's 8400 Btu Cordero ... «StreetInsider.com, Jul 15»
10
Anglo American takes up to $4 bln in write-downs - MarketWatch
LONDON--Globally diversified miner Anglo American PLC said Thursday it will incur $3 billion to $4 billion in write downs in the first half of this ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»

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