To provide incentives that encourage a person or organization to act in a particular way.
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- incentivize investment
- incentivize cooperation
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The scheme incentivized investment by changing the expected financial return.
The arrangement incentivized cooperation without assuming that every participant valued the reward equally.
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- Base
- incentivize
- Past tense
- incentivized
- Past participle
- incentivized
- Present participle
- incentivizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- incentivize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are incentivizing
- Present perfect
- have/has incentivized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been incentivizing
- Past
- incentivized
- Past continuous
- was/were incentivizing
- Past perfect
- had incentivized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been incentivizing
- Future
- will incentivize
- Future continuous
- will be incentivizing
- Future perfect
- will have incentivized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been incentivizing
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Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: incentivize; incentivizes; incentivized; incentivized; incentivizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: incentivizes.
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