incentivize
verb
in·cen·tiv·ize
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incentivized;
incentivizing
Definition of incentivize
: to provide with an incentive
would incentivize employees with stock options
Examples of incentivize in a Sentence
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For this reason, electric utility companies created special rate plans to incentivize customers to use less electricity during the busiest hours of the day when many people are just arriving home from school or work. — azcentral, "How to avoid overloading your electrical system during the summer," 1 Aug. 2019 Because these laws are administered at the local level, federal policy can’t do much to directly change these laws and instead attempts to incentivize—or punish—local governments to change them. — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, "Where the Democratic primary candidates stand on housing," 8 July 2019 Primary care residencies based in academic medical centers do little to promote or incentivize careers in primary care. — STAT, "We were inspired to become primary care physicians. Now we’re reconsidering a field in crisis," 20 June 2019 For example, the order directs the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to incentivize doctors to participate in the Vaccines for Children program, which helps cover the costs of shots. — Anna Staver, The Denver Post, "Colorado’s worst-in-the-nation measles vaccination rate drops again," 13 June 2019 Building on the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, grant programs will be established to incentivize the creation of more units at a lower cost. — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, "Cory Booker Gives Tax Credits To Renters Under New Plan," 6 June 2019 This will incentivize government lawyers to conduct litigation fairly and responsibly, starting with the basic question: Is this fight worth taking on? — Alex Kozinski, WSJ, "How a Pointless Lawsuit Took Off," 24 Jan. 2019 The Obama administration invited China to participate in the exercise twice, both in 2014 and 2016, in part to incentivize China to stop behaving so aggressively in the South China Sea. — Alex Ward, Vox, "Trump’s China strategy is the most radical in decades — and it’s failing," 18 Sep. 2018 San Jose has developed a draft reach code that will incentivize all-electric new construction. — Elena Shao, SFChronicle.com, "Bay Area cities poised to follow Berkeley’s natural gas ban," 19 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'incentivize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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