incurring
Sayin-KUR-ingUS/ɪnˈkɝɪŋ/UK/ɪnˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of incur.
Incurring debt early in a career can limit later choices.
The firm avoided incurring penalties by filing its reports on time.
Note
A form that does double duty as participle and gerund, and it doubles its consonant too: one r in incur, two in incurring, because the stress falls on the final syllable. Either way it takes a direct object, since the older intransitive uses of incur, meaning to occur or to run into danger, are obsolete. What follows is usually something unwelcome: debt, costs, penalties, blame.
incurring is a form of incur
incur, verb: To bring something unpleasant or harmful upon oneself, or to become liable to it, through one's own actions. Full entry
- Spelling
- incur → incurring: double the r, add -ing
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