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incentivizes

incentivizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about incentivizes

What is incentivizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Incentivizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of incentivize.

Words near incentivizes in the dictionary

  1. incentivization
  2. incentivize
  3. incentivized
  4. incentivizer
  5. incentivizers
  6. incentivizes
  7. incentivizing
  8. incentre
  9. incentres
  10. incents
  11. incept

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incentivizes (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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