motivate
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to motivate (third-person singular simple present motivates, present participle motivating, simple past and past participle motivated)
- (transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
- The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.
- (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
- He was motivated purely by self-interest.
- Steam motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.
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[edit] Translations
to encourage
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[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
motivate f.
- Feminine plural form of motivato
[edit] Verb
motivate
- Second-person plural present tense of motivare.
- Second-person plural imperative of motivare.
- Feminine plural of motivato.
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of aeimottv
- vomitate