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Plural of incentive

regular plural

The plural of incentive is incentives.

Forms of incentive

Singularincentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/
Pluralincentives
Countablecountable

Incentives in a sentence

  • If the government wants graduates to stay in the country, they should offer more incentives.From the entry graduate
  • One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.From the entry employee
  • Any efforts to reduce overimaging must find ways of addressing the underlying incentives behind defensive medicine.From the entry overimaging
  • May incl: Regional Pay Zone (based on loc.) & Stock equity incentives.2025 November 1, Wal-Mart, “Senior Software Engineer”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry incl
  • Furthermore, this provision simplifies the investment incentives and creates “rural qualified opportunity funds” (RQOFs).2025 May, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 25. From the entry RQOF

Meaning of incentive

  1. noun Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
  2. noun A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
  3. adjective Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.

Full definition of incentive

Questions about the plural of incentive

What is the plural of incentive?
The plural of incentive is incentives.
Is incentive countable?
Incentive is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incentive (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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