Definition of Incurring

1. Noun. Acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable). "Incurring debts is easier than paying them"

Generic synonyms: Acquisition
Derivative terms: Incur

Definition of Incurring

1. Verb. (present participle of incur) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incurring

1. incur [v] - See also: incur

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incurring

incurable romantic
incurableness
incurables
incurably
incuriosities
incuriosity
incurious
incuriously
incuriousness
incuriousnesses
incurrable
incurred
incurrence
incurrences
incurrent
incurring
incurs
incursion
incursions
incursive
incursively
incurtain
incurtained
incurtaining
incurtains
incurvate
incurvated
incurvates
incurvating
incurvation

Literary usage of Incurring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"lustrations of which wll be found in the ' incurring the indebtedness or issuing ... for the reason that at the time of incurring the debt provision was not ..."

2. Essays, Moral and Literary by Vicesimus Knox (1803)
"ON THE GUILT OF Incurring DEBTS WITHOUT EITHER A PROSPECT OR AN INTENTION ... none is more frequent than that of incurring debt without any real ..."

3. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"of protecting the treasury of the municipality against the incurring of ... A statutory provision prohibiting any expenditure, or the incurring of any ..."

4. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"Incurring obligations. If a person not otherwise liable assumes obligations so that they ... Her incurring such liability was a consideration for A's note. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... anil so dexterous was his conduct, that he reaped the benefit, without incurring the guilt, or at It-¡ist the reproach of the subsequent massacre. la ..."

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