incentivize
verb
in·cen·tiv·ize
in-ˈsen-tə-ˌvīz 
incentivized; incentivizing
: to provide with an incentive
would incentivize employees with stock options
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And tariffs could incentivize businesses to return overseas factories and outsourced workers to the United States.
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David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Though market-rate housing is more expensive — $1,363 a month on average for a one bedroom in the city of Sacramento, according to Apartment List — just $500 a month is often enough to incentivize family and friends to take someone in, researchers have found.
—Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 12 Dec. 2025
China’s updated five-year plan frames the coming half-decade as a make-or-break effort supported by government funding and tax breaks to incentivize private companies to spend more on research.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
The regulated hunt will help incentivize maintaining healthy bear populations, and help fund the work that is needed, according to Mark Barton of the Florida chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, an advocacy group that supported the hunt.
—CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025
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David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Though market-rate housing is more expensive — $1,363 a month on average for a one bedroom in the city of Sacramento, according to Apartment List — just $500 a month is often enough to incentivize family and friends to take someone in, researchers have found.
—Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 12 Dec. 2025
China’s updated five-year plan frames the coming half-decade as a make-or-break effort supported by government funding and tax breaks to incentivize private companies to spend more on research.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
The regulated hunt will help incentivize maintaining healthy bear populations, and help fund the work that is needed, according to Mark Barton of the Florida chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, an advocacy group that supported the hunt.
—CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for incentivize
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“Incentivize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incentivize. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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