incentivein‧cen‧tive /ɪnˈsentɪv/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable, uncountable] 
As an added incentive, there’s a bottle of champagne for the best team.create/provide/give somebody an incentive Awards provide an incentive for young people to improve their skills.incentive to do something Farmers lack any incentive to manage their land organically.economic/financial/tax etc incentives a recycling drive backed with financial incentivesCOLLOCATIONSverbshave an incentive· Companies have an incentive to maximize efficiency.give/offer somebody an incentive· If you want people to change their behaviour, it's a good idea to offer them some kind of incentive.provide somebody with an incentive· Good teachers provide their students with incentives to learn.create an incentive· We need to create an incentive for people to recycle their rubbish.act as an incentive (=be an incentive)· The chance of promotion acts as an incentive for many employees.adjectivesa strong/powerful incentive· The possibility of acquiring wealth acts as a strong incentive in many people's lives.a significant incentive· The high financial rewards provide a significant incentive.a greater incentive· The scheme gives industry a greater incentive to tackle pollution.the main incentive· What is the main incentive for people to join the army?an extra/added incentive· The cash prize gives contestants an added incentive to do well.economic/financial incentives (=money that is offered to someone as an incentive)· Doctors are encouraged through financial incentives to work in poor areas.NOUN + incentivecash incentives· The scheme gives farmers cash incentives to manage the countryside for wildlife.tax incentives (=a reduction in tax, offered to people as an incentive)· Tax incentives are provided for employees to buy shares in their own companies.price incentives (=lower prices, offered to people as an incentive)· The strong December sales were attributed to attractive price incentives.incentive + NOUNan incentive scheme/system· The incentive scheme was introduced to encourage companies to use renewable energy sources.phraseshave little/no incentive to do something· Poor farmers have little incentive to grow crops for export.
WORD ORIGINincentive
Origin:
1600-1700 Late Latin incentivum, from Latin incinere ‘to set the tune’, from canere ‘to sing’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Low prices give the farmers little incentive.
- The government is offering special tax incentives to people wanting to start up small businesses.
- The new plan will provide strong incentives for young people to improve their skills.
- The school gives incentives such as more play time to kids who work hard.
- When prices are so low, farmers have little incentive to increase production.
- Indiana has sometimes spent too much on tax incentives to lure companies inside its borders.
- Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.
- Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive.
- Problems have also been experienced with providing cost-centre managers with sufficient incentives to manage resources economically, efficiently and effectively.
- Taxes are too high, investment incentives missing.
- That probably depends on what financial incentives the United States might provide.
- The granting of individual landownership rights improved incentives, and facilities for credit and investment improved.
- There is a clear incentive to move to larger countries.
Longman Language Activatorsomething good that is used to persuade someone
something that encourages you to work harder, start new activities etc: · The school gives incentives such as more play time to kids who work hard.· The new plan will provide strong incentives for young people to improve their skills.incentive to do something: · When prices are so low, farmers have little incentive to increase production.tax/cash/financial incentives (=offers to reduce taxes, give someone money etc): · The government is offering special tax incentives to people wanting to start up small businesses.
something that is offered to someone to make a deal or plan seem more attractive, so that they will accept it: · The new airport is an unpopular development but the government has promised £4 million in grants to the local community as a sweetener.
informal a reward that is offered to someone to encourage them to do something: · The U.S. has held out the carrot of more aid and investment.carrot and stick (=a combination of rewards and punishments): · Governments were forced to adopt a carrot and stick approach to the trade unions.
something such as a gift that you offer to someone in order to persuade them to do what you want: · The prices are the main inducement - everything is much cheaper here than at the mall.inducement to do something: · I don't think the tax reduction will be an inducement to save more.cash/financial inducement: · As a way of reducing the workforce, workers are being offered cash inducements to retire.inducement for somebody to do something: · The government want to use this as an inducement for developing countries to open up their markets.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs The government has announced a package of measures to assist affected areas.
something that encourages you to work harder, start a new activity etc: · Companies have an incentive to maximize efficiency.
· If you want people to change their behaviour, it's a good idea to offer them some kind of incentive.
· Good teachers provide their students with incentives to learn.
· We need to create an incentive for people to recycle their rubbish.
(=be an incentive)· The chance of promotion acts as an incentive for many employees.
adjectives· The possibility of acquiring wealth acts as a strong incentive in many people's lives.
· The high financial rewards provide a significant incentive.
· The scheme gives industry a greater incentive to tackle pollution.
· What is the main incentive for people to join the army?
· The cash prize gives contestants an added incentive to do well.
(=money that is offered to someone as an incentive)· Doctors are encouraged through financial incentives to work in poor areas.
NOUN + incentive· The scheme gives farmers cash incentives to manage the countryside for wildlife.
(=a reduction in tax, offered to people as an incentive)· Tax incentives are provided for employees to buy shares in their own companies.
(=lower prices, offered to people as an incentive)· The strong December sales were attributed to attractive price incentives.
incentive + NOUN· The incentive scheme was introduced to encourage companies to use renewable energy sources.
phrases· Poor farmers have little incentive to grow crops for export.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The government has announced a package of measures to assist affected areas. (=in which people receive money to persuade them to work harder)· There is a generous incentive scheme for the sales force.
(=lower taxes that encourage people to do something)· We have introduced new tax incentives for savings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Rejects from London have an added incentive for putting their talents on show.· A course available specifically designed for their needs at which they will meet others of their own age is an added incentive.· In many cases, that has given the family an added incentive and advantage.· As an added incentive, two complimentary tickets for the evening's disco are being offered for the winning entry.
· The fact remains that any legal regime which lowers the economic incentive for drugs-crime will surely boost drug consumption.· But Reimers, 62, said that universities have an economic incentive to stick to fundamental research.· Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive.· The measure seeks to take the economic incentive away from employing illegal immigrants.· In terms of economic welfare, as in terms of economic incentives, the picture is again unclear.· The people most likely to be affected by economic incentives are those who are the most economically vulnerable.· Such an economic approach provides incentives to firms to find new techniques and new products which lead to lower pollutant emissions.· He believed strongly in economic incentive.
· It's an ominous warning which gives his players an extra incentive to impress against the Londoners tonight.· Also a conservatory can improve the overall image and give an extra incentive to attract new customers.· Although reward may not represent very much extra incentive for the bright and successful, it motivates the unsuccessful child highly.
· Local NGOs Many donors provide financial incentives to local NGOs.· The doctors in managed-care systems often have financial incentives to limit patients' use of laboratory tests, specialists and other services.· The budget provided the financial incentive, but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol.· Executives are given head-count-reduction targets by their boards, and sometimes financial incentives are tied to reaching the targets.· And they also believe that would-be organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives.· Tanker and barge owners have a financial incentive to avoid oil spills, too.· Different financial incentives change the nature of the educational experience and are not merely alternative ways of financing the same service.· In affidavits, Dubuque employers predicted they could use financial incentives to prod workers to use out-of-town hospitals.
· There were no fiscal incentives for the spenders to economise or for consumers to limit their demands.· The production of renewable energy sources should also be promoted through grants, soft loans and fiscal incentives, the report concluded.· He favours the use of fiscal incentives alongside regulation, particularly in the fields of carbon emissions and road haulage.· The fiscal incentives for use of unleaded petrol have been a great success.· In the first place, governments all over the world offer fiscal incentives to attract foreign firms to open factories.· It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995.
· The richer the city the greater the incentive to stifle opposition.· The higher the price of the product, the greater the incentive to produce and offer it in the market.· This served as a great incentive to spur her on.· A rabbit running from a fox is running for its life, so it has the greater evolutionary incentive to be fast.· Such a power could, more than anything, prove to be the greatest single incentive to cooperate.· These workers are the most mobile and have the greatest incentive to evaluate carefully the relative and absolute risks.· The smaller the task the greater the incentive.· The greatest incentive, however, to reduce car use is to provide an efficient and popular public transport service.
· But if Mr Mugabe is on the way out, he has little incentive to drop his assault on the farms.· But most talented people have little incentive to defer to an individual without a strong moral core.· There was little incentive for them to be active in this regard, for only a few high-level headmen received a salary.· That gives me little incentive to work.· However, the brutal facts of the market suggest that there is little incentive anyway.· It provides perhaps little incentive for most youngsters in today's affluent society.· But there is little incentive to become an engineer in Britain.
· This ability is a major incentive within fundholding.· This clearly provided a major incentive to the other two districts to achieve the development of new services.· The access to data about treatment outcome and quality of care should be a major incentive for clinicians.
· The coverage of the scheme was widened further and new incentives were provided including a rehousing grant.· He also told them about the new incentive plan that he had negotiated with Alpha for achieving the current plan.· The expanding non-agricultural sector itself provided farmers with new opportunities and incentives.· To some extent unconventional sources of natural gas, new technology, and new economic incentives, underlie this greater optimism.· The eligibility criteria for the new incentives included the regional location, job creation and sectoral priority characteristics of new investment projects.· It would be the first local-foreign joint venture to take advantage of new incentives that went into effect last June.· We will introduce new environmental incentives.· The latest monthly decline comes despite a new government-sponsored incentive program introduced in October to boost car sales.
· Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive.· By passing on his skills he has given other youngsters the incentive to go on to achieve greater things.· It recommended that the prohibition on contingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.· Assorted tax breaks and other incentives may also be called for.
· There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives, as we have seen in Chapter 3.· Much of the problem of the underclass, we continue to believe, arises from perverse incentives rooted in misguided paternalism.· The upshot is that the conglomerates and the government have a perverse incentive to allow the system to continue to fester.· Nevertheless, this raises questions about resourcing, the possibility of duplication of services and of perverse incentives.· Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.· What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions?· Consultants were on lifetime contracts and had no reason to change. 3. Perverse incentives.
· The alternative was to be hanged, so there was a powerful incentive.· Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.· Markets necessarily act as a powerful incentive to producers to operate as efficiently as possible in order to survive. 2.· These changes created powerful incentives to stay single and unemployed.· Rural Metro is driven by the profit motive, a particularly powerful incentive in an employee-owned company.
· Stars and stripes in 9 carat gold Beaverbrooks offers Beaverbrooks offer special incentives for brides on wedding purchases.
· However, the rational wealth maximizing company may refrain from such conduct even if there are strong incentives to use the information.· There are strong economic incentives for corporations to be responsive to employees' personal needs.· This is probably the strongest incentive of all.· Again, the owners of these brand names have a strong incentive not to surprise you in an unpleasant way.· Miss Probst points out that the law gives the private sector a strong incentive to clean up at the lowest possible cost.· The tax system gives workers and their employers strong incentives to provide gold-plated health care rather than cash.· That would create a group of stakeholders with a strong incentive to monitor the bank's credit quality.· On the contrary, it constitutes the strongest incentive to end capitalism and build socialism.
NOUN· The effects of interest rates and the tax rate on investment incentives have been extensively studied.· This trade-off underscores a serious tension between open architecture and investment incentive during the initial deployment and development of the I-way.· I do not share the confidence of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East in investment incentives.· This issue needs to be closely examined to determine the correct balance between initial openness of the l-way architecture and investment incentives.· Taxes are too high, investment incentives missing.
· There are two elements to this, first the composition of nationalized industry boards and secondly the managerial incentive package.· The incentive package for management similarly differs quite substantially between the public sector and large private sector companies.
· Some companies therefore give employees in the latter situation an additional incentive payment to encourage them to move.· There are no incentive payments offered to staff who arrive at work by kayak.
· Such incentive programs are likely to cut a chunk out of profits.· The latest monthly decline comes despite a new government-sponsored incentive program introduced in October to boost car sales.· Rival Chrysler Corp. started its own incentive program in November.
· The effectiveness of incentive schemes is in practice hard to assess.· Most builders operating incentive schemes employ a bonus surveyor to measure and calculate the bonus paid to each operative.· There is a possibility that applying an incentive scheme to one parameter only may attach undue importance to it.· It should be noted finally that depending on their design, incentive schemes may actually be counter-productive.· Low job interest and morale could be improved by introducing pay incentive schemes, for instance.· You might like to offer your employees a trip to Champneys as a reward in an incentive scheme.· Partnership incentive schemes are comparatively rare but can result in a highly motivated and dedicated work-force.
· Their inadequacy is often disguised by the tax incentives that many governments give to institutional saving.· Or tax incentives encourage companies to stretch out downsizing and keep more jobs at home?· We have introduced new tax incentives for savings.· The tax incentive is applied generally to all adoptions, foreign and domestic.· Encouragement has been made through tax incentives, so that pension savings are now one of the most tax effective investments available.· The Industrial Development Department lured businesses with tax incentives and low wages.· Indiana has sometimes spent too much on tax incentives to lure companies inside its borders.· Encouragement in this direction was to be provided by tax incentives and state-subsidized research and development.
· It is thus important to see the influence of the taxation system on work incentives in this wider perspective.· The bourgeois family model with its breadwinning husband and dependent wife and children was thus believed to secure male work incentives.· Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.
VERB· It would act as an incentive.· One of the objectives of grant finance is to act as an incentive for investment from the private sector.· Markets necessarily act as a powerful incentive to producers to operate as efficiently as possible in order to survive. 2.· Thirdly, a new church springing up may act as an incentive to older churches to reach out again with the gospel.
· And he may have acquired an added incentive for wanting to make a good showing.
· By controlling inflation it created the conditions, by lowering taxes it created incentives.· Guaranteed incomes create all the wrong incentives.· Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.· Governments have frequently made matters worse by granting concessions to cattle ranchers on terms that have created incentives for reckless exploitation.· The existence of technological spillovers and positive pecuniary externalities create incentives to make such ventures as inclusive as possible.· The real payoff comes when governments deregulate these systems, because they create the basic incentives that drive employees.· We will create new incentives to follow environmentally sensitive strategies and behaviour.· Differences such as these create fundamentally different incentives in the public sector.
· Some companies therefore give employees in the latter situation an additional incentive payment to encourage them to move.· Or tax incentives encourage companies to stretch out downsizing and keep more jobs at home?· Employers, therefore, have an interest in adopting incentives to encourage good performance even with only limited supervision.· President Clinton Friday endorsed incentives designed to encourage states to move children more quickly from foster-care settings into permanent adoptive homes.· Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.· They have every incentive to encourage the belief that, to be a big-league city, you have to have big-league sports.· About 2.5 million have benefited from tax incentives to encourage employee share schemes.
· Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets.· You give people incentives, and they are going to produce more.· However, if you do want to give an incentive for early payments, consider a settlement rebate.· Requiring this investment will give absent fathers incentive to take a more active personal interest in their children as well.· Currently covering only 4% of the country the scheme gives farmers cash incentives to help manage the countryside for wildlife.· The fee-only planners say the commissions give planners an incentive to recommend products that may not be best for the client.· We thank you for giving us the incentive to do this and wish you a Merry Christmas and happy New Year.· Economists blamed the shortages on prices which gave little incentive to production.
· Low job interest and morale could be improved by introducing pay incentive schemes, for instance.· Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.
· It predicts precisely the opposite human response to the substitution effect - higher taxes increase incentives to work.· Nontraded goods produced with increasing returns create an incentive for factor movements, even when factor prices are equalized internationally.· Old systems for protecting them are collapsing, and shrinking incomes increase the incentive to sell them.· This has been done to increase the incentives the higher income groups have to work harder.
· In turn, government should provide industry with incentives to invest in innovation.· Also, will more efficient personal transportation detract from incentives to invest in mass transit?· That provides not an incentive to invest but a disincentive - a penalty.· Tiny producers, for example, have little incentive to invest large sums in artificial insemination in order to breed better cattle.
· What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions?· Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.· If the firm goes public, Goldman would lose an incentive that keeps its rising executives from leaving for other firms.· With higher interest rates, people have an incentive to keep money in the bank, not in their pockets.
· He says he will but he needs the incentive to do it.· Many were poisoned or trapped as crop raiders, and if anyone needed an incentive, high prices were paid for skins.· You need to give yourself incentives and rewards, as well as receiving them from other people.
· And they are offering tasty incentives to runners who answer their call.· Schools now had to compete for funds, offering their achievements as incentive.· Others may offer additional incentives for you to part with your money.· Computer firms are expected to offer matches and other incentives to buy their equipment.· Indeed, PageMart and PageNet last week offered incentives for EconoPage customers to switch to their paging networks.· It should lead the international community in offering real incentives.· Only by offering such incentives can a group begin to mobilize supporters.· What happens to neighboring areas that can not offer the same incentives?
· Local NGOs Many donors provide financial incentives to local NGOs.· Meantime, businesses increasingly are providing employee incentives to reduce traffic.· The threat of personal liability provides directors with an incentive to comply with applicable standards of conduct.· These high profits have a paradoxical effect: They provide a steady incentive for drug suppliers.· This should provide you with the incentive to train harder and achieve even more.· They provide another incentive to include skimmia in the garden.· It provides perhaps little incentive for most youngsters in today's affluent society.· In that case such penalties would surely provide enormous incentive.
· If more were financed privately then taxation could be reduced and incentives increased accordingly.· In traditional ability-grouped classes the lower-group children get the least interesting materials, further reducing their incentive to learn.· Asked whether Labour's tax plans would reduce incentives for managers and executives, 22 percent say they would work less hard.· For the latter system greatly reduces the incentive to export and leads to a progressive worsening of the balance of payments.· Comprehensive state welfare also induces dependency, reduces incentives to work, and blunts initiative and enterprise.
· This, Mr Bates said, would remove the financial incentive for businesses to delay payment of bills.· However, Mr Hurd's pronouncement yesterday removes that incentive, leaving the Labour move almost certain to fail.· This would remove the incentive to marry as an escape from an intolerable environment.
· Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets.· Its advantages are overwhelming: Mission-driven budgets give every employee an incentive to save money.· Stronger incentives to save are, no doubt, a good idea.· It would be less easy to avoid and it would be an incentive to save.· But there's no incentive to save water and no relationship between how much you use and what you pay.
As an added incentive, there’s a bottle of champagne for the best team.create/provide/give somebody an incentive Awards provide an incentive for young people to improve their skills.incentive to do something Farmers lack any incentive to manage their land organically.economic/financial/tax etc incentives a recycling drive backed with financial incentivesCOLLOCATIONSverbshave an incentive· Companies have an incentive to maximize efficiency.give/offer somebody an incentive· If you want people to change their behaviour, it's a good idea to offer them some kind of incentive.provide somebody with an incentive· Good teachers provide their students with incentives to learn.create an incentive· We need to create an incentive for people to recycle their rubbish.act as an incentive (=be an incentive)· The chance of promotion acts as an incentive for many employees.adjectivesa strong/powerful incentive· The possibility of acquiring wealth acts as a strong incentive in many people's lives.a significant incentive· The high financial rewards provide a significant incentive.a greater incentive· The scheme gives industry a greater incentive to tackle pollution.the main incentive· What is the main incentive for people to join the army?an extra/added incentive· The cash prize gives contestants an added incentive to do well.economic/financial incentives (=money that is offered to someone as an incentive)· Doctors are encouraged through financial incentives to work in poor areas.NOUN + incentivecash incentives· The scheme gives farmers cash incentives to manage the countryside for wildlife.tax incentives (=a reduction in tax, offered to people as an incentive)· Tax incentives are provided for employees to buy shares in their own companies.price incentives (=lower prices, offered to people as an incentive)· The strong December sales were attributed to attractive price incentives.incentive + NOUNan incentive scheme/system· The incentive scheme was introduced to encourage companies to use renewable energy sources.phraseshave little/no incentive to do something· Poor farmers have little incentive to grow crops for export.