incentivize
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- incentivise (non-Oxford British English)
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incentivize (third-person singular simple present incentivizes, present participle incentivizing, simple past and past participle incentivized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.
- The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.
- (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives to.
- They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.
Usage notes[edit]
- Used relatively more than incent to refer to the use of systems of incentives.
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Translations[edit]
to provide incentives for (a behavior or action)
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Further reading[edit]
- “incentivize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries