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incentivize

/ɪnˈsɛntɪvaɪz/

incentivize verb: to provide incentives for; to encourage.

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.
    • City staff are recommending ways Toronto can incentivize the construction of 20,000 purpose-built rental homes.2024 October 30, Ethan Lang, “Toronto council to consider rental development incentives”, in CBC.ca
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To provide incentives to.
    • They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

incentivize meaning in Bengali

incentivize in Bengali

প্রণোদনা প্রদান করা, উৎসাহিত করা, কাউকে প্রণোদনা দেওয়া

Examples of incentivize in a sentence

  • Sadly, structural issues allow—and even incentivize—states to exploit and manipulate the TANF program.
  • Any additional regulation should incentivize organizations to increase their focus on cyberresilience and recovery.
  • To accelerate the production of this knowledge, the government should abandon decelerationist policies and incentivize incremental alignment R&D by AI companies.

All 10 example sentences with incentivize

Antonyms of incentivize

Forms of incentivize

third-person singular presentincentivizes
present participleincentivizing
past participleincentivized
pastincentivized
alternative formincentivise

Past tense of incentivize: incentivized

Origin of incentivize

From incentive + -ize.

Words formed from incentivize

Questions about incentivize

What does incentivize mean?
Incentivize means to provide incentives for; to encourage.
What is incentivize in Bengali?
Incentivize in Bengali is প্রণোদনা প্রদান করা, উৎসাহিত করা, কাউকে প্রণোদনা দেওয়া. See Incentivize meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is incentivize?
Incentivize is a verb.
How do you pronounce incentivize?
Incentivize is pronounced /ɪnˈsɛntɪvaɪz/.
What is the past tense of incentivize?
The past tense of incentivize is incentivized.

Words near incentivize in the dictionary

  1. incentivise
  2. incentivised
  3. incentivises
  4. incentivising
  5. incentivization
  6. incentivize
  7. incentivized
  8. incentivizer
  9. incentivizers
  10. incentivizes
  11. incentivizing

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