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Discover LudwigThe word "Incentivize" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in contexts where you want to encourage or motivate someone to take a specific action, often in business or organizational settings. Example: "The company decided to incentivize employees by offering bonuses for meeting sales targets." Alternatives include "motivate" or "encourage."
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Incentivize
verb
To provide incentives for; to encourage.
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The latest draft of the TPP's intellectual property chapter (which again, we only have access to thanks to Wikileaks) shows the Obama administration's United States Trade Representative (USTR) is pushing for extremist copyright and internet policy provisions that would incentivize internet service providers to monitor more of their users' activities, threatening online privacy.
We took the line, let's invest in people, let's incentivize them to multi-skill across the factory, so that when things are tight, or we get a run on something, we can move people around".
It could possibly incentivize more people to catch them.
Some coverage of the Amazon–Hachette fight has focussed on the fact that writers generally receive higher royalties from sales of hardcovers than they do from sales of e-books, which would suggest that writers, too, want higher e-book prices as a way to incentivize readers to buy hard copies.
Or: Can you incentivize teachers to turn up to class?
Any woman should run a mile from a man who uses the verb "incentivize," but things could have been worse, I guess.
"Now, they are lining up for caps, bags, electronics, teacups, and money vouchers, because we incentivize them at every stage".
StickK has different tools, known as "commitment devices," to incentivize its users, and Orszag uses one that makes a credit-card donation to an "anti-charity" — some cause that he finds loathsome — if he doesn't reach his goal.
"We're gonna say, 'O.K., this is so economic that we don't have to incentivize you to build this.
The mansion tax and transfer fees incentivize zoning that encourages churn.
At a meeting with Todd Black, the head of production of Mandalay Pictures, the conversation ranged from John Cassavetes to how Stabile had managed to "incentivize" his actors without money.
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