Word Finder - incentives

definition

Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.

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I have no incentive to do housework right now.

definition

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

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

This seeming pedantry is, however, atoned for by the clear practical aim of his sermons, the noble ideal he keeps before his hearers, and the skill with which he handles spiritual experience and urges incentives to virtue.

From these results we see that Shaftesbury, opposed to Hobbes and Locke, is in close agreement with Hutcheson, and that he is ultimately a deeply religious thinker, inasmuch as he discards the moral sanction of public opinion, the terrors of future punishment, the authority' of the civil authority, as the main incentives to goodness, and substitutes the voice of conscience and the love of God.

On the contrary, a belief that conduct necessarily results upon the presence of certain motives, and that upon the application of certain incentives, whether of pain or pleasure, upon the presence of certain stimuli whether in the shape of rewards or punishments, actions of a certain character will necessarily ensue, would seem to vindicate the rationality of ordinary penal legislation, if its aim be deterrent or reformatory, to a far greater extent than is possible upon the libertarian hypothesis.

Among other fossil genera of recent institution, Archaeolepas, Lepidocoleus, Squama, Stramentum can only be mentioned as incentives to research.

Ching thanks of market-based incentives.

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The incentives offered to move out of poppy cultivation simply aren't enough.

In addition to market exclusivity, orphan drug status provides possible tax incentives for a company's investment in US clinical research.

If the poor remove rich people's incentives to produce economic gain, the rich, who behave somewhat rationally, will stop producing.

Moreover, independently of special incentives to the alarmist and the man of property, the opinions of many Americans turned again, after the war, into a current of sympathy for England, as naturally as American commerce returned to English ports.

A first step would be to create incentives for countries to voluntarily forgo the development of fuel-cycle facilities.

A first step must be to expedite agreement to create incentives for states to voluntarily forego the development of fuel cycle facilities.

The Group recommended that considerable thought be given to the role of incentives in any participatory forestry initiative.

It would be highly improper if the advice they give is determined by financial incentives.

Are there other ways of introducing incentives to use a conditional fee, rather than legal aid, whenever possible?

The indirect costs refer to lost wealth caused by the tax system distorting incentives to work, save and invest.

There are perverse benefits incentives -- paying more the longer people claim.

Wine drinkers who quot the other hits than boxers of market-based incentives.

Film tax Final details of the generous new film tax incentives announced in the Pre-Budget Report are published today.

The government's record on savings incentives is anyway dire.

The positive work of two terms of government initiating grading for carbon emissions and providing cashback incentives for environmentally friendly motors will be futile.

Both bogs and fens can benefit from carefully targeted and designed agri-environment incentives.

Member states must be given sufficient leeway to provide cyclical incentives.

The paper notes the work that is underway with transmission licensees to inform the development of proposals for such incentives.

Some object to the monetary incentives as crass materialism and argue for donors receiving no more than medical expenses and insurance policies.

The alternative is a humane policy framework that recognizes the incentives to produce, traffic and consume narcotics.

The increasing prices for organically grown paddy and the increased paddy yield serve as incentives for taking to organic farming.

We need to rally against the government's reluctance to introduce tax incentives.

The stunning surrounding scenery also affords plenty of incentives to get out in the fresh air.

All new houses will be highly insulated, and there will be incentives for builders to include solar panels / solar water heaters.

Men who undergo vasectomy do not receive any financial incentives.

I think no matter what, energy costs will fall dramatically in the future, probably to near zero, because the economic incentives to unlock that technical puzzle are so overwhelming.

We need to rally against the government 's reluctance to introduce tax incentives.

Others will be enticed by retiree perks and tax incentives.

Today, with help from past government incentives, orchards consist of dwarf rootstock trees, rarely growing beyond head height.

This would seem to indicate that incentives are required for some householders to segregate more material.

The package of incentives and penalties, backed by six world powers, seeks to defuse a standoff over Iran 's nuclear program.

In addition, it is not possible to grant stock option incentives to partnership LLC employees in the same manner as a corporation.

It may also create incentives for criminals to victimize the same company again in the belief that no punishment will be forthcoming.

These sites may also offer sales or purchasing incentives, such as free shipping.

Rewards and positive incentives-You're the best person to choose what incentives might possibly work for your child.

Catalogs often offer free shipping or other incentives.

Manufacturers sometimes give dealers the ability to give you rebates and incentives and even great financing.

During the holiday season, many online merchants offer free shipping or other incentives to get you to purchase from their site.

Unfortunately, some vets seem to recommend the brand that provides them the most incentives to sell it in their office, and some of these brands are very well known.

If you want a more psychologically positive approach to deterring cats, one way to go is to provide them with incentives to stay away.

The hype about gas cards generally concerns the wide variety of available incentives.

Depending on the redemption policy of a card, users may have only a limited amount of time to claim their incentives before rewards expire.

Cardholders also receive incentives, such as special coupons to be used in conjunction with their card and invitations to private sales.

Many card companies began offering travel incentives, usually in the form of air miles, for card loyalty in the 1980s.