incentive
something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
inciting, as to action; stimulating; provocative.
Origin of incentive
1synonym study For incentive
Other words for incentive
Other words from incentive
- in·cen·tive·ly, adverb
- coun·ter·in·cen·tive, noun
- non·in·cen·tive, adjective
- pre·in·cen·tive, noun
- su·per·in·cen·tive, noun, adjective
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How to use incentive in a sentence
China’s reliance on foreign semiconductors is both a major incentive for and hinderance to achieving that goal.
China will spend $300 billion on semiconductor imports as U.S. squeezes chip supply | eamonbarrett | August 27, 2020 | FortuneIn their 2005 best-selling book Freakonomics, two authors explained how economics are a powerful incentive on human behavior.
Smaller chains and independent theaters will also be reopening, but discounts and other incentives are scarcer.
Are these big discounts enough to get you back into a movie theater? | dzanemorris | August 20, 2020 | FortuneThey argue that the incentives CEOs face have not changed, so their behavior won’t change.
Revisiting the Business Roundtable’s ‘Stakeholder Capitalism,’ one year later | Geoffrey Colvin | August 19, 2020 | FortuneExcerpts of a preliminary legal review of the purchase, leaked to NBC 7, contend that by acting as a middleman in a major real estate transaction, Cisterra didn’t have an incentive to look closely at the building’s true condition.
How the City Came to Lease a Lemon | Lisa Halverstadt and Jesse Marx | August 10, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
Obama Could Hit China to Punish North Korea | Shane Harris, Tim Mak | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn addition, because House Democrats were cut out of the negotiations over the bill, they don't feel any incentive to play ball.
As it stands, candidates do not have much of an incentive to come out in favor of same-sex marriage.
Until scholars and collectors stop buying, antiquities dealers have no incentive to stop selling.
Dismembering History: The Shady Online Trade in Ancient Texts | Candida Moss | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs long as there are states willing to negotiate payments with groups like ISIS, there will be a financial incentive to kidnap.
To Kill the ISIS Monster You Gotta Do More Than Cut Off Its Money | Charlie Winter | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSeveral desertions were now reported from the troops, a hostility to discipline rather than cowardice being the incentive.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterAbove all, we had the perpetual incentive of gardening to keep our eyes toward the future.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonAnd to thwart Mrs. Errington would alone have been a powerful incentive with old Max.
A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) | Frances Eleanor TrollopeBut with the 250 apprehension of the Ideal and of the Divine law, three things follow, incentive to progress.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingWhat a successful man, of marked force of character, has done, may be an incentive and an encouragement to others.
British Dictionary definitions for incentive
/ (ɪnˈsɛntɪv) /
a motivating influence; stimulus
an additional payment made to employees as a means of increasing production
(as modifier): an incentive scheme
serving to incite to action
Origin of incentive
1Derived forms of incentive
- incentively, adverb
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