incent
verb/ɪnˈsɛnt/
Etymology Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize
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US To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
- We need to incent people to innovate more.
- We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.2007 February 24, Damon Darlin, “At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times:
2 more examples
- HUD programs to incent owners to maintain affordable housing units have preserved over 3,500 projects with about 300,000 units.2009 July 15, Shelley Moore Capito, Legislative Options for Preserving Federally- and State-assisted Affordable Housing and Preventing Displacement of Low-income, Elderly, and Disabled Tenants, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, page 4:
- incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective2010 June 24, Al Gore, David Blood, “Toward Sustainable Capitalism”, in Wall Street Journal:
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US To provide an incentive for (something).
- We need to incent more innovation.
- DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools2009 January 13, Arne Duncan, “Duncan Lays Out Positions in Confirmation Hearing”, in WBEZ Chicago Public Radio:
- Related terms
- incentivize, incentivise