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