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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91. Again, the owners of these brand names have a strong incentive not to surprise you in an unpleasant way.
92. The incentive to abuse conflicts of interest was significantly reduced, and limited membership guaranteed a self-perpetuating standard of good behaviour.
93. There is a clear incentive to move to larger countries.
94. Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others.
95. A rabbit running from a fox is running for its life, so it has the greater evolutionary incentive to be fast.
96. The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed.
97. This, Mr Bates said, would remove the financial incentive for businesses to delay payment of bills.
98. Not winning this year gives us an incentive to work harder next year.sentencedict.com
99. This clearly provided a major incentive to the other two districts to achieve the development of new services.
100. You might like to offer your employees a trip to Champneys as a reward in an incentive scheme.
101. An example of a cultural change is moving from standardized incentive rewards to individualized ones.
102. With higher interest rates, people have an incentive to keep money in the bank, not in their pockets.
103. The incentive package for management similarly differs quite substantially between the public sector and large private sector companies.
104. But if Mr Mugabe is on the way out, he has little incentive to drop his assault on the farms.
105. It's an ominous warning which gives his players an extra incentive to impress against the Londoners tonight.
106. It provides perhaps little incentive for most youngsters in today's affluent society.
107. The higher the price of the product, the greater the incentive to produce and offer it in the market.
108. Such a power could, more than anything, prove to be the greatest single incentive to cooperate.
109. Therefore, it follows, renters lack any incentive to vote against tax hikes and the vulnerable property owners need special protection.
110. He also wants to look at how public incentive funds should be provided to businesses.
111. The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position.
112. Deals are also being offered to companies as alternative incentive perks to top performers.
113. The incentive for the men was that as homeless itinerants their social security would be under £20 a week.
114. It should be noted finally that depending on their design, incentive schemes may actually be counter-productive.
115. One of the objectives of grant finance is to act as an incentive for investment from the private sector.
116. Neither group has any incentive to alter its mode of behaviour.
117. There are two elements to this, first the composition of nationalized industry boards and secondly the managerial incentive package.
118. For the latter system greatly reduces the incentive to export and leads to a progressive worsening of the balance of payments.
119. He says he will but he needs the incentive to do it.
120. A course available specifically designed for their needs at which they will meet others of their own age is an added incentive.
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