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incentivized

/ɪnˈsɛn.tɪ.vaɪzd/

incentivized is the simple past and past participle 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.

Words formed from incentivized

Questions about incentivized

What is incentivized the simple past and past participle of?
Incentivized is the simple past and past participle of incentivize.
How do you pronounce incentivized?
Incentivized is pronounced /ɪnˈsɛn.tɪ.vaɪzd/.

Words near incentivized in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incentivized (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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