incentivize

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Plain form
incentivize

Third-person singular
incentivizes

Past tense
incentivized

Past participle
incentivized

Present participle
incentivizing

  1. (transitive) (economics) If you incentivize someone, you provide them with incentives so as to encourage them to do something.
    The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.

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