incurs
- 1Third-person singular simple present of incur.
The company incurs significant costs when it ships goods overseas.
A borrower who misses a payment incurs interest on the unpaid balance.
Note
The form a singular subject takes in the present: it incurs, the borrower incurs, each missed payment incurs. In current English it takes a direct object, usually something unwelcome: costs, a penalty, debts, someone's displeasure. The old intransitive uses, where something simply 'incurs' in the sense of occurring or falling within a period, are obsolete, so 'a delay incurs' needs an object to read as modern English.
incurs 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 → incurs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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