Meaning & use

Incentivised

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Given an incentive or motivation to encourage a particular behavior or action.

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Employees were incentivised with bonuses to hit the quarterly sales target.

The government incentivised electric car purchases with tax rebates.

A note on using this word

Incentivised is the British spelling of incentivized; both forms are relatively recent business coinages from the noun incentive.

Words with a similar meaning

motivatedencouragedrewarded

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Words with an opposite meaning

discourageddeterred

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