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  • 1incur — verb incurred, incurring (T) 1 to put yourself in an unpleasant situation by your own actions, so that you lose something, get punished etc: incur losses/debts etc: Milton incurred debts of over $300,000. | incur sb s anger/disapproval etc: We… …

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  • 2incur — in‧cur [ɪnˈkɜː ǁ ˈkɜːr] verb incurred PTandPPX incurring PRESPARTX [transitive] FINANCE if you incur a cost, a debt, or a fine, you do something that means that you lose money or have to pay money: • The foundry has been operating at less than… …

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  • 3incur — in|cur [ınˈkə: US ˈkə:r] v past tense and past participle incurred present participle incurring [T] formal [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: incurrere to run into , from currere to run ] 1.) if you incur a cost, debt, or a fine, you have to pay… …

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  • 4incur */ — UK [ɪnˈkɜː(r)] / US [ɪnˈkɜr] verb [transitive] Word forms incur : present tense I/you/we/they incur he/she/it incurs present participle incurring past tense incurred past participle incurred 1) to lose money, owe money, or have to pay money as a… …

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  • 5incur — in|cur [ ın kɜr ] verb transitive * 1. ) to experience something unpleasant as a result of something you have done: Each stage of the process incurs an additional risk. incur someone s wrath/displeasure (=make someone angry): I do not wish to… …

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  • 6Cut one's losses — abandon a project in which one has already invested some part of one s capital, either material or emotional, for no return, so as not to incur more losses …

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  • 7cut one's losses — Australian Slang abandon a project in which one has already invested some part of one s capital, either material or emotional, for no return, so as not to incur more losses …

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  • 8insurance — /in shoor euhns, sherr /, n. 1. the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one s person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a… …

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  • 9Credit channel — The credit channel mechanism of monetary policy describes the theory that a central bank s policy changes affect the amount of credit that banks issue to firms and consumers for purchases, which in turn affects the real economy. Contents 1 Credit …

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  • 10Battle of Alam el Halfa — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Alam el Halfa partof=Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatre North African Campaign, Western Desert Campaign caption= date=August 30 ndash; September 5, 1942… …

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