incentive
noun
something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
incentives
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pluralof incentive.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Higher rates also can give people incentives to save instead of spend.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“The economics for building data centers in the U.S. have gotten worse as tax incentives go away and are replaced by local municipalities demanding concessions from data center operators,” D.A.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Likely priorities include rail infrastructure projects in Penang and Johor, flood-mitigation and water infrastructure, as well as AI, data centers and semiconductor manufacturing incentives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"There are incentives," Ren said, but they have more to do with public relations amid the growing backlash to data centers across the United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
If economics is a science primarily concerned with incentives, it is also—fortunately—a science with statistical tools to measure how people respond to those incentives.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
