Definition of "incur" []

• To acquire or come into (something usually undesirable); sustain: incurred substantial losses during the stock market crash. (verb-transitive)
• To become liable or subject to as a result of one's actions; bring upon oneself: incur the anger of a friend. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This value is the actual financial damages that you will incur from a persecution by the HRC."
• "It's a simple fact of politics that many measures which would save money in the medium-to-long term incur costs in the short term."
• "But I know, as it seems to me, that if civilized countries follow the principles of "political correctness" and observing laws literally, they will again incur innumerable calamities, like those from Hitler and Stalin."