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incentivizing

incentivizing is the present participle and gerund 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 incentivizing

What is incentivizing the present participle and gerund of?
Incentivizing is the present participle and gerund of incentivize.

Words near incentivizing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incentivizing (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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