Incentive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INCENTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• that which incites to action, a stimulus
• a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something
• a payment or concession to stimulate greater output or investment
• something that encourages effort or action
• That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
• a positive motivational influence
• an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
ADJECTIVE:
• inciting to action
• Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
• Serving to kindle or set on fire.
• encouraging greater effort
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action

Words related to INCENTIVE

incentively19 incentives15

Words that contain INCENTIVE

incentives15 incentively19 disincentive18 disincentives19 counterincentive23 counterincentives24

How to use INCENTIVE in a sentence

• Lacking incentive to stir about, they came to spend most of their time lying on their backs watching the sky.
• He construed them rightly not only as a reward, but as an incentive to further efforts.
• Ours is mostly because social influence is always on the side of educated mediocrity, and theirs because self, coupled with corruption, is their natural incentive to all exertion.
• The primary incentive for writing has to be artistic satisfaction, egoboo, and a desire for posterity.
• I fear that from the English point of view these conditions would be an additional incentive to war.
• The recipients of these honours will rush into our arms as friends, not only under the incentive of gain, but of distinction also.
• He has also promised that nations shall learn war no more, and in his faithfulness we have all the incentive which certainty of ultimate success can give to human exertion.
• It would be nothing if it had not the church before it as an incentive.
• But besides the wish to gratify his curiosity, there existed yet another incentive which induced him to undertake this expedition.
• This competition is not only a great, constant and helpful incentive to every worker, but it is also an excellent means of developing individuality.
• In other words it might simply be the outcome of the good, and in no wise the incentive for the good.
• Moreover, no immediate good fortune counts for much as an incentive if there is a prospect of bad luck following in the immediate future.
• Prizes, decorations and banners were offered as an incentive to effort in the contests.
• Moreover, every expedition into Spanish territory, finding the Spaniards very weak and very rich, gave new incentive to such endeavour.
• This was a great self-revelation to the Negro of his powers of more than rudimentary culture, and a mighty incentive from the guard to the soldiery of the 92nd Division.
• They are packed together at a fearful rate in dirt and wretchedness, and they have every incentive to commit crimes which will bring them the means of supplying their wants.
• This imprisonment shall be the incentive for the spreading of My teachings.
• He fought to acquit his own honor as a man fights a duel until blood is drawn, and that done he has no more incentive for fighting.
• With this new clue for an incentive, Broffin had immediately put his nose to the cold trail again.
• His success in crossing had given him that working capital of resolution and incentive whence came his superhuman strength and overmastering resolve in that lonely tree.
• This is all the more noteworthy because the idea of vocation was not the early incentive to monastic life.
• But Eugene Field was yet without the stern incentive of necessity that is the seed of journalism.
• It is responsibility that develops one, and to know that your pupils expect you to know is a great incentive to study.
• Then there had been the incentive of adventure, the fascination of that very mystery which was a mystery still.
• If it is a new topic, the more suggestive it is in calling up past experience or in offering incentive for experiment or application, the longer can attention stay with it.
• The time is too short and the incentive too feeble.
• It is useless to deny that the miracles of science have not been such an incentive to art and imagination as were the miracles of religion.
• Our young people need every incentive to make the most of their talents and of their opportunities.
• The incentive to this step was the inhuman treatment he was subjected to.
• While the good times endure, there is no sufficient incentive either to economy or to invention.
• If the soldiers could make captives of them, they would become very eager, and that would be a great incentive for the soldiers to destroy them.

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