Synonym: encouragement, inducement, motive, stimulus. Similar words: concentrate, concentration, concentrating, representative, sentiment, Cent., active, motive. Meaning: [ɪn'sentɪv] n. 1. a positive motivational influence 2. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output.
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31. The smaller the task the greater the incentive.
32. Such small gains were incentive enough for many.
33. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. Plato
34. This ability is a major incentive within fundholding.
35. That gives me little incentive to work.
36. It calculates that the Government has underfunded the incentive allowances scheme by some £12m a year.
37. Raise college admissions standards so that young people have an incentive to work harder and achieve more in high school.
38. But Reimers, 62, said that universities have an economic incentive to stick to fundamental research.
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39. Although reward may not represent very much extra incentive for the bright and successful, it motivates the unsuccessful child highly.
40. This trade-off underscores a serious tension between open architecture and investment incentive during the initial deployment and development of the I-way.
41. That would create a group of stakeholders with a strong incentive to monitor the bank's credit quality.
42. Some companies therefore give employees in the latter situation an additional incentive payment to encourage them to move.
43. Good telecommunications links can bring them closer to western markets, giving their skilled workers less incentive to emigrate.
44. This is so because the former quite possibly face weaker external constraints and because management may not encounter such sophisticated incentive structures.
45. It recommended that the prohibition on contingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.
46. With the 3-year-old and older a sticker chart is a useful incentive to using the lavatory correctly.
47. There is a possibility that applying an incentive scheme to one parameter only may attach undue importance to it.
48. Being able to dispense with the services of an interpreter is a big incentive to fluency.
49. The greatest incentive, however, to reduce car use is to provide an efficient and popular public transport service.
50. These high profits have a paradoxical effect: They provide a steady incentive for drug suppliers.
51. The measure seeks to take the economic incentive away from employing illegal immigrants.
52. In traditional ability-grouped classes the lower-group children get the least interesting materials, further reducing their incentive to learn.
53. Tiny producers, for example, have little incentive to invest large sums in artificial insemination in order to breed better cattle.
54. But whether that amounts to a positive incentive for companies to boost production and revive investment plans is open to doubt.
55. Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets.
56. Secondly there is the mechanism which determines top management emoluments, implicit in which is their incentive structure.
57. The fact remains that any legal regime which lowers the economic incentive for drugs-crime will surely boost drug consumption.
58. Buyers need a financial incentive to choose more efficient cars.
59. However, Mr Hurd's pronouncement yesterday removes that incentive, leaving the Labour move almost certain to fail.
60. And he may have acquired an added incentive for wanting to make a good showing.
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