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词汇 incentive
释义 incentive
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪnˈsen.tɪv/ us /ɪnˈsen.t̬ɪv/
C2
something that encourages a person to do something: 激励,刺激,鼓励
tax incentiveTax incentives have been very effective in encouraging people to save and invest more of their income.税收激励措施在鼓励人们将收入多储蓄和多投资方面很有效。
[ + to infinitive ]There is little incentive for people to leave their cars at home when public transport remains so expensive.公共交通的费用居高不下,无法激励人们停开私家车。
incentive toBonus payments provide an incentive to work harder.支付奖金能刺激人们更努力工作。
Compare
motivation(REASON)
Opposite
disincentive
Indexation of pay rises to productivity will give people an incentive to work harder.将加薪与生产效率挂钩会激励人们更加努力地工作。
The incentive to sell more is large - and it plainly works.
The management have introduced a productivity incentive scheme for members of staff.
Tax incentives have been offered to attract industry to the region.
The new law provides incentives for businesses to invest in recycling equipment.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Attracting and tempting
affinity
allure
alluringly
arrest
attract
charisma
charm offensive
charm the pants off someoneidiom
chum
clickbait
glamour
honey trap
jump out at someone
lure
modesty
tantalizingly
tempt
temptation
temptingly
tickle someone's fancyidiom

incentive | American Dictionary


incentive
noun[ C/U ]
us/ɪnˈsen·tɪv/
something that encourages a person to do something:
[ C ]Tax incentives are sometimes effective in encouraging people to save money.
[ U ]These kids have no incentive to learn.

incentive | Business English


incentive
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪnˈsentɪv/us
something, especially money, that encourages a person or organization to do something:
financial/fiscal/monetary incentiveCash grants were part of the financial incentives given to developers of new solar power technology.
a big/great/generous incentive
incentive to do sth
Executives had a strong incentive to destroy papers they knew would incriminate them in court.
be/have little/no incentiveThere will be little incentive to consolidate before new tax laws take effect.
incentive for sb to do sthThere's no incentive for the unions to make concessions now, since they've always been given what they asked for.
incentive package/plan/system
create/offer/provide an incentive
See also
disincentive
economic incentive
group incentive
sales incentive
share incentive plan
tax incentive

Examples of incentive


incentive
I think there are encouraging developments in technology that are permitting developed countries to 'do more with less', and increasing incentives to do so.
Economic returns from these projects may provide a strong incentive for such countries to participate.
But many physicians have refused these incentives because of the risk of control of their practice.
The potential for such liability claims will provide private parties with an added incentive to bring cases.
First, private parties often lack the individual incentive to initiate litigation before national courts.
The split removed an incentive to behave moderately as there were no longer national politicians but only regional ones.
In political terms, it took an argument for boycotting the elections away from the opposition and provided it with an added incentive to participate.
Party-based systems create career incentives for the legislator to support the overall aims of the parties.
How contributions are collected under the reformed systems may also affect incentives.
Wider, more detailed research into the working of access systems and of any financial or other incentives is urgently needed.
But which institutional features of the two systems shape the incentives relevant for coalition formation?
In this part we examine papers on redistribution, constitutional design, and the incentives and quality of political elites.
The incentive to collect and return the item is effectively transferred to the agents with the lowest opportunity cost of time.
This paper builds upon the theoretical framework from the precision irrigation literature to study the roles of information, institutions, and price incentives in irrigated agriculture.
To some extent the latter reflects differing views on the effectiveness of the various incentives to change.
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Collocations withincentive


incentive

These are words often used in combination with incentive.

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added incentive
Regressive taxation provides an addedincentive to earn a degree so that a smaller gross wage difference motivates skill acquisition.
additional incentive
However, as discussed previously, the subsequent return to procurement prices removed the additionalincentive and confirmed the existence of policy uncertainty.
adequate incentive
In practice, however, pollution taxes have often been set too low to have an adequateincentive effect.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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