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incentivise

incentivise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of incentivize.

Meaning of incentivize

Verb

incentivize (third-person singular simple present incentivizes, present participle incentivizing, simple past and past participle incentivized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To provide incentives for; to encourage.
    • The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To provide incentives to.
    • They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

Antonyms of incentivise

Forms of incentivise

third-person singular presentincentivises
present participleincentivising
past participleincentivised
pastincentivised
alternative British English Oxford USincentivize

Origin of incentivise

From incentive + -ise.

Questions about incentivise

What is incentivise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Incentivise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of incentivize.

Words near incentivise in the dictionary

  1. incentive
  2. incentiveless
  3. incentively
  4. incentives
  5. incentivisation
  6. incentivise
  7. incentivised
  8. incentivises
  9. incentivising
  10. incentivization
  11. incentivize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incentivise (page history and authors); incentivize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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