incent
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]incent (third-person singular simple present incents, present participle incenting, simple past and past participle incented)
- (transitive, US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
- We need to incent people to innovate more.
- 2007 February 24, Damon Darlin, “At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times[1]:
- We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.
- 2009 July 15, Shelley Moore Capito, Legislative Options for Preserving Federally- and State-assisted Affordable Housing and Preventing Displacement of Low-income, Elderly, and Disabled Tenants, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, page 4:
- HUD programs to incent owners to maintain affordable housing units have preserved over 3,500 projects with about 300,000 units.
- 2010 June 24, Al Gore, David Blood, “Toward Sustainable Capitalism”, in Wall Street Journal:
- incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective
- (transitive, US) To provide an incentive for (something).
- We need to incent more innovation.
- 2009 January 13, Arne Duncan, “Duncan Lays Out Positions in Confirmation Hearing”, in WBEZ Chicago Public Radio:
- DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools
Usage notes
[edit]- Less common than incentivize at COCA.
- Used relatively more than incentivize to refer to providing an incentive for an individual action.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to provide an incentive to (a person or organization)