to incentivize
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5.5
- verb
- /ɪnˈsɛntɪvaɪz/
- Formal
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incentivar
- More than ever before, research and development must be incentivized to reward risk-takers.
- policies to incentivize
- incentivize agricultural production
- incentivize people
Because the world so heavily incentivizes and rewards narcissism.
- Because the world so heavily incentivizes and rewards narcissism.
- But also, we don't want to incentivize killing people by any means.
- And so, first of all, people are incentivized to create very short songs.
- But what if they were incentivized to rewild to reforest?
- Yes, but should the government be incentivizing destructive behavior?
- Therefore the optimism will incentivize its growth.
- Yeah, Neither of you are in any way incentivized to recognize that.
- It's about incentivizing people to do productive things.
- So again, she is incentivized to bankrupt her ex.
- And so the quantitative easing was created to help incentivize that action.
- The social media algorithms incentivize high arousal emotions.
- So, so yeah, you need to incentivize return to work.
- I would change the tax code to incentivize the right behavior.
- And so you are always going to have human beings incentivized to invest.
- YouTube's incentivized to add a skip ad button.
Examples
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The current mass tort settlement system does not appropriately incentivize plaintiffs' attorneys to protect against unfair allocations.
Academic text (2017) -
To continue the process, mechanisms must be established to incentivize improvement and to implement corrective action.
Academic text (2016) -
Management tries to incentivize its sales force in various ways.
Academic text (2014) -
Societies get more of what they incentivize, as with anything.
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So that might incentivize people to submit more.
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This is a nuanced question, but how do you incentivize talent like that?
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However, the system we have now incentivizes people not to save.
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No regulations incentivize the participation of the private sector in the supply of renewable energy.
Academic text (2018) -
During Tex instruction, students are encouraged and incentivized to open a savings account with a local financial institution.
Academic text (2015) -
We urgently need policies such as carbon pricing to incentivize behavior change and promote clean technologies.
Synonyms
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3.5
Make someone want to do something
328
1.3
To give something to someone to thank them for doing something good
325
2.1
Help something grow or develop
149
4.0
Make a behavior more likely by giving rewards or praise
61
4.9
To persuade someone to do something by offering something they want
45
4.7
To make someone want to do something
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4.4
Offer a small reward to make someone do something
To give a small reward, like money or time off, to encourage someone to do something
Offer a reward to encourage someone to do something
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Morphology
Etymology
Incentivize comes from the word incentive, which means a 'reward or reason to act'. The ending -ize means 'make or cause', so to incentivize someone is to 'make them want to do something' by offering a reward.