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incentive

In economics, a measure that persuades economic agents to adopt a particular course of action. For example, it can be argued that lower income-tax rates provide an incentive for people to work harder. Higher indirect taxes on alcohol provide a disincentive for people to drink. An incentive scheme, where an employer will offer a bonus to staff who achieve a certain target, is a way of motivating workers.
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With this added incentive I nearly drove Sola distracted by my importunities to hasten on my education and within a few more days I had mastered the Martian tongue sufficiently well to enable me to carry on a passable conversation and to fully understand practically all that I heard.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Your religion," says he, "serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
With Taglat there was another incentive--a secret and sinister incentive, which, had Tarzan of the Apes had knowledge of it, would have sent him at the other's throat in jealous rage.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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