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incentivize

[ in-sen-ti-vahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, in·cen·ti·vized, in·cen·ti·viz·ing.

to give incentives to:
The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.

incentivize

/ ɪnˈsɛntɪˌvaɪz /

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1. to provide (someone) with a good reason for wanting to do something
  why not incentivize companies to relocate?
2. to promote (something) with a particular incentive
  an incentivized share option scheme

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70

Their quarrel is with more recently formed verbs like incentivize.

We need to incentivize local school districts to offer more advanced placement courses and more vocational and career training.

You cannot engineer risk out of the system, or incentivize it away; it's baked into the cake.

Can we use student loan forgiveness as a way to incentivize bright young people to enter particular fields?

But we can extrapolate from previous experience that decapitation does incentivize Hamas to ease up on its attacks.

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