incentive
From Wiktionary
incentive is part of the Academic Word List. It is important for students in college and university.
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[change] Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: in‧cen‧tive
[change] Noun
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- (countable & uncountable) An incentive is something that make you feel like you want to do something.
- Companies should given their workers financial incentives to take the bus or bike to work.
- The government is cutting taxes to provide incentives for investment.
- Doctors have a lot of incentive to see many patients and little incentive to spend time with any of them.
