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Definition: Incurring |
IncurringNoun1. Acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable): "incurring debts is easier than paying them". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incurring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Crosswords: Incurring |
| English words defined with "incurring": incurrence, incursion ♦ Pyrrhic victory ♦ rash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incurring": Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ♦ prepayment clause ♦ Thermal Energy Storage, trial. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry James | The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He arranged a family of dead people for her, a sure means of incurring no objection |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | Christian congregations that are of mixed ethnic background are reluctant to list their ethnic Uzbek members on registration lists due to fear of incurring official displeasure. (references) |
Economic History | Vietnam | At least 60 percent of the remaining SOEs are incurring losses, and some estimates indicate this number may even be higher. (references) |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | Until 1998, the Government of the Czech Republic pursued balanced budgets, incurring only small actual deficits. (references) |
Trade | Uzbekistan | Even capital equipment imports for U.S. Uzbek joint ventures are subject to substantial processing delays and often remain in customs for two to three months, incurring hefty storage costs. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | In practice, this makes it very difficult for an American businessperson to visit Saudi Arabia to investigate the market or to select a local representative without incurring some obligation to his sponsor, e.g., the right of first refusal on any business opportunity developed. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Banco Anglo Costarricense, at one time the third largest and oldest state commercial bank, was closed by the Central Bank's examiners office in 1995 after incurring US$ 200 million in losses due to bad loans and dubious investments in Venezuelan bonds that subsequently disappeared. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Austria | The Labor Code provides that workers have the right to remove themselves from a job if they fear "serious, immediate danger to life and health" without incurring any prejudice to their job or career, and the Government effectively enforces this law. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. |
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| "Incurring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.22% of the time. "Incurring" is used about 144 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.22% | 140 | 26,789 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.78% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 144 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
incurring | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incurring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 招致 (incur, Incurred). (various references) | |
Danish | en toldskylds opståen (incurrence of a customs debt, incurring of a customs debt). (various references) | |
Dutch | overtreding van de Algemene wet inzake de douane en de accijnzen (contravention of customs regulations incurring administrative fines), ontstaan van een douaneschuld (incurrence of a customs debt, incurring of a customs debt), conclusie waarvoor taksen betaald dienen te worden (claim incurring fees), civielrechtelijk aansprakelijke partij (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages), burgerrechtelijk aansprakelijkepartij (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages), burgerlijk verantwoordelijke partij (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksityisoikeudellisesti vastuussa oleva asianosainen (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages), korvausvelvollinen (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages). (various references) | |
French | encourant. (various references) | |
German | sich zuziehend. (various references) | |
Greek | γένεση τελωνειακής οφειλής (incurrence of a customs debt, incurring of a customs debt). (various references) | |
Italian | insorgenza d'una obbligazione doganale (incurrence of a customs debt, incurring of a customs debt), illecito amministrativo (contravention of customs regulations incurring administrative fines, wrongful act or omission on the part of the Community in the performance of its functions), persona civilmente responsabile (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages), parte responsabile civilmente (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages). (various references) | |
Korean | 부딪힘. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | incurringay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pessoa com responsabilidade meramente civil (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages), parte civilmente responsável (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages), constituição de uma dívida aduaneira (incurrence of a customs debt, incurring of a customs debt). (various references) | |
Spanish | origen de una deuda aduanera (incurrence of a customs debt, incurring of a customs debt). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppkomst av en tullskuld (incurrence of a customs debt, incurring of a customs debt), civilrättsligt ansvarig part (party incurring third party liability, person liable for damages). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "incurring": reincurring. (additional references) | |
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"Incurring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incuring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incurring" (pronounced i'nker"ing) |
| 5 | -n k er" i ng | concurring. |
| 4 | -k er" i ng | nonrecurring, occurring, recurring. |
| 3 | -er" i ng | blurring, conferring, deferring, demurring, deterring, inferring, preferring, purring, referring, slurring, spurring, stirring, transferring, whirring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-n-n-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: curring, inuring, ruining. | |
-3 letters: curing, ricing, uncini. | |
-4 letters: cirri, cuing, icing, incur, inurn, iring, ricin, ruing, runic, unrig. | |
-5 letters: curn, curr, girn, grin, ring, ruin, rung, unci, uric. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-n-n-r-r-u" | |
+2 letters: reincurring. | |
+3 letters: underpricing. | |
+4 letters: counterfiring, reconfiguring, reintroducing. | |
+5 letters: counterraiding, recentrifuging. | |
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