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UK
/ɪnsˈɛntɪv/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɛnɪv, ˌɪnˈsɛntɪv/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɛnɪv, ˌɪnˈsɛntɪv/ ]
NOUN
- an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
- a positive motivational influence
How To Use incentive In A Sentence
- That provides a powerful financial incentive for banks to supply more credit. Times, Sunday Times
- Awards provide an incentive for young people to improve their skills.
- This ability is a major incentive within fundholding.
- The incentive for business to substitute work for capital has been working with particular force since the end of the cold war.
- I think this is Holsten trying to broaden its product range and that is not necessarily an incentive to purchase.
- Incentives may be aimed directly at individual doctors such as capitation payments, caps on fee-for-service income, and target payments for screening set proportions of a population.
- What people most long for in ogling the screen is to witness some torrid lascivious scene: the incentives to gaze are supremely lubricious.
- Traffic wardens in Bristol who issue the most tickets are being rewarded with meals and pens to circumvent a ban on financial incentives. Times, Sunday Times
- The most direct financial incentive to prevent rubbish is to charge people by the amount of rubbish they put out.
- Such a power could, more than anything, prove to be the greatest single incentive to cooperate.