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  • verb Present participle of incur.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable)

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Examples

  • In his hours of blackest thoughts he had never trembled before the idea of incurring scorn through his ruin, of seeing his friends desert him, of descending to the lowest depths, being lost in the social substratum.

    Luna Benamor Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • While the system of issuing summonses and warnings to debtors would continue, the council was looking at unformity when dealing with debtors and uniformity in penalties, such as incurring interest on arrears.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Organizing your finances and time helps you become more productive and responsive and ensures you avoid unnecessary pitfalls, such as incurring wasteful late fees.

    AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS 2010

  • The definition of EBITDA as used in the Company's loan agreements is further adjusted for certain cash and non-cash charges/credits, including stock compensation expense, and is used to determine compliance with financial covenants and the ability to engage in certain activities such as incurring additional debt.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • The agreements governing our debt contain financial and other restrictive covenants that limit our ability to take certain actions, such as incurring additional debt or making acquisitions.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Adjusted EBITDA is used to determine compliance with financial covenants and our ability to engage in certain activities such as incurring additional debt and making certain payments.

    unknown title 2009

  • Under the indenture governing the Company's 11. 25% senior subordinated notes (the "Notes"), our ability to engage in certain activities such as incurring certain additional indebtedness, making certain investments, and paying certain dividends is tied to ratios based on Adjusted EBITDA (which is defined as "EBITDA" in the indenture).

    unknown title 2009

  • Cecilia’s modesty made her wish the dresses had been less expensive; she feared the countess of Torrington would think her presuming, and accuse her of attempting to outvie herself and her guests in the splendour of dress; she shrunk from the idea of incurring ridicule, and provoking animadversions on her birth and dependent state.

    Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments 1821

  • "incurring," as he himself says, "in this vagabond life, the double stigma of suspension from orders and apostasy;" then studying medicine at

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830

  • If you take the oft-repeated industry maxim that a film must gross twice its negative cost the price of actually making the film before incurring print, publicity and distribution costs in order to earn its keep, then all of these movies were bona fide hits.

    Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011

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