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incentive

/in-sen-tiv/US // ɪnˈsɛn tɪv //UK // (ɪnˈsɛntɪv) //

奖励,激励,奖励措施,激励措施

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inciting, as to action; stimulating; provocative.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounlure, inducement
Forms: incentives

Examples

  • China’s reliance on foreign semiconductors is both a major incentive for and hinderance to achieving that goal.

  • In their 2005 best-selling book Freakonomics, two authors explained how economics are a powerful incentive on human behavior.

  • Smaller chains and independent theaters will also be reopening, but discounts and other incentives are scarcer.

  • They argue that the incentives CEOs face have not changed, so their behavior won’t change.

  • Excerpts of a preliminary legal review of the purchase, leaked to NBC 7, contend that by acting as a middleman in a major real estate transaction, Cisterra didn’t have an incentive to look closely at the building’s true condition.

  • Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.

  • In addition, because House Democrats were cut out of the negotiations over the bill, they don't feel any incentive to play ball.

  • As it stands, candidates do not have much of an incentive to come out in favor of same-sex marriage.

  • Until scholars and collectors stop buying, antiquities dealers have no incentive to stop selling.

  • As long as there are states willing to negotiate payments with groups like ISIS, there will be a financial incentive to kidnap.

  • Several desertions were now reported from the troops, a hostility to discipline rather than cowardice being the incentive.

  • Above all, we had the perpetual incentive of gardening to keep our eyes toward the future.

  • And to thwart Mrs. Errington would alone have been a powerful incentive with old Max.

  • But with the 250 apprehension of the Ideal and of the Divine law, three things follow, incentive to progress.

  • What a successful man, of marked force of character, has done, may be an incentive and an encouragement to others.