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Be charged in court, wasting time, nothing less (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

incur

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'be' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with fundamental existence as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'charged in court wasting time nothing less' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'in' is within the answer.
The remaining letters 'cur' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for incur that I've seen before include "Fall liable to" , "Arouse" , "Invite, bring about" , "Become liable to (costs)" , "To become liable to, suffer" .)

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