Incentive
[ɪn'sentɪv] or [ɪn'sɛntɪv]
Definition
(a.) Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
(a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire.
(n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Incitement, inducement, stimulus, impulse, spur, provocative, goad, motive, cause, encouragement.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inducement, excitation, rousing, motive, stimulus, spur
ANT:Discouragement, warning, dissuasive, prohibition, deterrent
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Definition
adj. inciting encouraging: (Milt.) igniting.—n. that which incites to action or moves the mind: motive.
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Examples
- And to the parents themselves, as to other animals, the sight of their young ones will prove a great incentive to bravery. Plato. The Republic.
- The greatest incentive in modern times to the production of inventions is governmental protection. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Governmental Protection the Greatest Incentive. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I have often felt that Mr. Edison got himself purposely into trouble by premature publications and otherwise, so that he would have a full incentive to get himself out of the trouble. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Hughes was rescued from destruction, and has become the property of the Pratt Institute, of Brooklyn, to whose thousands of technical students it is a constant example and incentive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There is also the effect on the parents, with whom, as with other animals, the presence of their young ones will be the greatest incentive to valour. Plato. The Republic.
- And so was added a further incentive to the adventure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There was an attempt to abolish _profit_ altogether, the rude incentive of most human commerce since the beginning of society. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The onward flow of inventions may be interrupted, if not materially stayed, by the cessation of some of the causes and incentives which now give them life. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- No other art was spurred to activity by such strong incentives, and none received the same encouragement and reward for its development. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Joy, mirth, vanity, and kindness are all incentives to this desire; as well as music, dancing, wine, and good cheer. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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