incentivize

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Verb

incentivize (incentivizes, present participle incentivizing; past and past participle incentivized)

1. (transitive, US, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.

   The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.

2. (transitive, US, business, economics) To provide incentives to.

   They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

Antonyms

• disincentivize

Related terms

• incent

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