Meaning

2 senses

  1. (US, transitive)To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).

    We need to incent people to innovate more.

    Anreize schaffen

    стимули́роватьstimulírovatʹ, побужда́тьpobuždátʹ, побуди́тьpobudítʹ

  2. (US, transitive)To provide an incentive for (something).

    We need to incent more innovation.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to provide an incentive to (a person or organization):
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to provide an incentive to (a person or organization):

Origin

Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize

Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize

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Forms

incents, incenting, incented, incented
Base formincent · to incent
3rd person singularincents
Present participleincenting
Past simpleincented
Past participleincented

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyincent
he, she, itincents

Past simpleLesson

all personsincented

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave incented
he, she, ithas incented

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill incent

Word family

1 related words
Relatedincentivize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
incendiaryincenseB2incentiveB2incentivizeinception
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