incentivize
verb/ɪnˈsɛntɪvaɪz/
Etymology From incentive + -ize.
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Business, Economics, Sciences British, English, Oxford, US To provide incentives for; to encourage.
- The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.
- City staff are recommending ways Toronto can incentivize the construction of 20,000 purpose-built rental homes.2024 October 30, Ethan Lang, “Toronto council to consider rental development incentives”, in CBC.ca:
- They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.
- Antonyms
- disincentivize
- Derived terms
- deincentivize, incentivization, incentivizer, nonincentivized, reincentivize, unincentivized
- Related terms
- incent