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What is the verb for incentive?

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incent
  1. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
  2. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive for (something).
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  4. Examples:
    1. “But we had to find the right numbers to incent them to buy cars and to incent the dealers to sell.”
      “Retailers and advertisers need to learn how to incent people without incensing them.”
      “We can't do enough to award excellence, incent it, put a spotlight on it and let the country know how much great teaching matters.”
incentivize
  1. (economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.
  2. (economics) To provide incentives to.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “There are all kinds of methods of professional interrogation, of ways to persuade people, incentivize people, motivate people.”
      “How do you incentivize wind energy and solar and make sure that net metering, for example, occurs?”
      “It is important, however, to ensure that there is sufficient private capital at risk to performance to incentivize genuine risk transfer.”
incentify
  1. to provide an incentive or reward with an expectation of certain action or consideration
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A method cleverly adopted by airlines to attract customers is to incentify the travel agent by offering generous override commissions in exchange for steering passengers towards their carrier.”
incentivise
  1. (transitive, British spelling) To provide with an incentive. [from 20th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “And you realise very quickly that we don't incentivise people to get involved in our political process because it's all clientelism.”
      “Subsidies could be tailored, for example, to encourage more small local abattoirs and food shops or to incentivise organic farming.”
      “Companies are being encouraged to use these plans to incentivise their workforce.”
incentivises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The deal effectively incentivises Crosby's management team to develop Crosby's existing assets in order to pay off Berkeley.”
incentivizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Mission success fee incentivizes the contractor's realization of certain specific achievements that are critical to the success of the program.”
      “But we need to place that brainpower within a framework of global action that incentivizes, encourages, and propels it forward.”
      “I don't think its true the law incentivizes marriage through benefits, so I also don't think this accurately describes how the law of marriage currently matters.”
incentifies
incents
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This incents gaming at the company level, contribute invalid data for erstwhile competitors while using your real graph for search.”
      “It also incents borrowers to walk away from debts and serves to prevent the housing market from finding a bottom, and thereby inhibiting a sustainable recovery in home values.”
incentivized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of incentivize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Groupon, he said, had incentivized procreation, an otherwise inexplicable act.”
      “He signed the law in 2006 that incentivized Californians to install solar electric systems.”
      “Why is it always assumed that somebody doesn't succeed because he can't, as opposed to he doesn't want to, or isn't incentivized to.”
incentivised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of incentivise
  2. Examples:
    1. “You have this terrible thing where people aren't incentivised in the same way.”
      “A coach or a manager will not get the best out of his team unless he is incentivised to do so.”
      “But the bulk of the problem is that social work departments are not incentivised to sort this problem.”
incentified
incented
  1. simple past tense and past participle of incent
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  3. Examples:
    1. “With later-term employees, they own a bit to make them feel franchised, and can be incented through promises of more.”
      “Also, we have moved to a shared-goal compensation plan, in which the virtual company teams are all incented to achieve a common set of goals.”
      “They're the only people, ever, who will be incented to make sure that they get the best possible deal for their money.”
incentivising
  1. present participle of incentivise
  2. Examples:
    1. “We should be incentivising and not disincentivising those parents who need to be paying.”
      “Ways should be found of incentivising trade-ins in these countries, by means of specific provisions.”
      “The Fuel Quality Directive will provide a further useful incentive in this direction as well as incentivising the introduction of biofuels.”
incentivizing
  1. present participle of incentivize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We should be incentivizing people to build estates and create wealth and encouraging that.”
      “This will clearly require that investing in the media be attractive and incentivizing.”
      “Harper puts great stock in the role of insurance as a way of both incentivizing efficient levels of target hardening and of coping with the risks of loss from such events.”
incentifying
incenting
  1. present participle of incent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “You can't get any return on riskless securities, so the government is incenting you to go out and buy stocks.”
      “In Q1 2010, 38 new customers selected Xactly solutions to begin incenting the right sales behaviors and impact bottom line results.”
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