Synonyms for incentive
ɪnˈsɛn tɪvin·cen·tive

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1. incentivenoun

   Antonyms:
   disincentive

2. incentivenoun

   I have no incentive to do housework right now.

   Antonyms:
   disincentive

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1. incentive

   Synonyms:
   inducement, excitation, rousing, motive, stimulus, spur

   Antonyms:
   discouragement, warning, dissuasive, prohibition, deterrent

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1. incentive, inducement, motivatornoun

   a positive motivational influence

   Synonyms:
   bonus, motivator, inducement, inducing

   Antonyms:
   deterrence, disincentive

2. bonus, incentivenoun

   an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

   Synonyms:
   motivator, fillip, bonus, inducement

   Antonyms:
   deterrence, disincentive

Matched Categories

1. • Payment
   • Rational Motive

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1. incentivenoun

   Synonyms:
   incitement, inducement, stimulus, impulse, spur, provocative, goad, motive, cause, encouragement

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1. incentivenoun

   Synonyms:
   motive, spur, incitement, stimulus, inducement provocation

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1. List of paraphrases for "incentive":

   incentives, stimulus, incitement, encouragement, inducement, motivation, impetus, incitation, enticement, spur, stimulation, boost, encouraging, motive, fillip, impulse, premium

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How to use incentive in a sentence?

1. Tim Kendall:

   I don't believe the incumbents — Facebook, Apple, Google — have the incentive to actually solve the problem.

2. b:

   Consistency will prompt us to take one step at a time. Discipline will focus on taking the next step when we may not want to. Our Goals will give us the incentive to keep moving forward.

3. Alex Azar:

   This new system gives states a strong incentive to ensure that all vaccinations are being properly reported, which it currently is not, and it gives states a strong incentive to ensure doses are going to work.

4. Ben Domenech:

   Jeb can argue he had a more conservative record as governor, but that just may not count much with an electorate that remembers his father for a tax hike and his brother for two wars, jeb will have to battle those ghosts in order to get the nomination. He'll also have to navigate a field with multiple candidates who have every incentive to turn him into a creature of the past and brand themselves as the way of the future, to attack him as a Common Core-pushing technocrat, as soft on gay marriage, or as a lover of amnesty.

5. The Treasury Department:

   Treasury will continue to disrupt and hold accountable these entities to reduce the incentive for cybercriminals to conduct these attacks.