Meaning

2 senses
  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To provide incentives for; to encourage.

    The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.

    begünstigen

  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To provide incentives to.

    They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

    Anreize schaffen, belohnen

Examples

5 sentences
  1. We are going to incentivize our people to work remotely.

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  2. Making people dependent on government handouts is not going to benefit the economy or incentivize individuals to become productive members of society.

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  3. Algeria can incentivize the development of quality accommodation options, including hotels, guesthouses, and resorts, in popular tourist areas.

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  4. This is the only way to incentivize the fight against the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia.

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  5. The Algerian government is incentivizing private developers to build affordable housing units, as well as investing in public housing projects.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to provide incentives for (a behavior or action):
to provide incentives to (a person or organization):

Forms

incentivizes, incentivizing, incentivized, incentivized
Base formincentivize · to incentivize
3rd person singularincentivizes
Present participleincentivizing
Past simpleincentivized
Past participleincentivized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyincentivize
he, she, itincentivizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsincentivized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill incentivize

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

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