Vocabulary
Incur
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
To experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken
Urdu meaning
[pukhto]مول لینا [/pukhto]
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Shut down the 25 state-owned enterprises that collectively incur losses of Rs832.8bn each year and close all non-value adding departments, councils and commissions.
Dawn Editorials —
Austerity delusion
— 2026-04-06
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When considered at scale, it seems much cheaper for Pakistan to provide clean water to its people than for society to incur the cost of having thousands of patients on dialysis.
Dawn Editorials —
Kidney disease
— 2026-03-14
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The PSM has since been shut down but continues to incur losses in billions of rupees.
Dawn Editorials —
Privatising PIA
— 2025-11-22
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Inured to the social costs that state policies incur, they formulate or conjure `national interest` from personal expediencies or biases, which currently seem to be heavily tilted towards the West.
Dawn Editorials —
On a wing and a prayer
— 2025-08-19
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Although that has apparently been recommended by Iran`s parliament, it too entails costs which Tehran may not want to incur.
Dawn Editorials —
Lies, deception and escalation
— 2025-06-23
Synonyms
acquire, arouse, earn
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