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plural incentives
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. quotations examples
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder. examples
comparative more incentive, superlative most incentive
Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating. quotations examples
Competency is of all other proportions the most incentive to industry.
1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […]
Serving to kindle or set on fire. quotations examples
Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,