incent
English
Etymology
Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Verb
incent (third-person singular simple present incents, present participle incenting, simple past and past participle incented)
- (transitive, US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
- We need to incent people to innovate more.
- 2007 February 24, Damon Darlin, “At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times:
- We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.
- 2010 June 24, Al Gore and David Blood, “Toward Sustainable Capitalism”, in Wall Street Journal:
- incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective
- (transitive, US) To provide an incentive for (something).
- We need to incent more innovation.
- 2009 January 13, Arne Duncan, “Duncan Lays Out Positions in Confirmation Hearing”, in WBEZ Chicago Public Radio:
- DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools
Usage notes
- Less common than incentivize at COCA.
- Used relatively more than incentivize to refer to providing an incentive for an individual action.
Related terms
- incentivize
- incentivise
Translations
to provide an incentive to (a person or organization)
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Anagrams
- nectin