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incentive

sostantivoaggettivoattestato nei dialoghi

  • //ɪnˈsɛntɪv//

Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.

    I have no incentive to do housework right now.

    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; […].

  2. 2

    A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.

    Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.

Etimologia

From Medieval Latin incentīvus (“that strikes up or sets the tune”), from incinō (“to strike up”), from in- (“in, on”) + canō (“to sing”) + -ive. The formation appears to have been influenced by incendō (“to set on fire”).

aggettivo

  1. 1

    Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.

    Competency is of all other proportions the most incentive to industry.

  2. 2

    Serving to kindle or set on fire.

    Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.

Forme

plurale
incentives
comparativo
more incentive
superlativo
most incentive
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