INCENTIVE
\ɪnsˈɛntɪv], \ɪnsˈɛntɪv], \ɪ_n_s_ˈɛ_n_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of INCENTIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
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Serving to kindle or set on fire.
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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.
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Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
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Serving to kindle or set on fire.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. Motive ; spur ; stimulus ; incitement ; encouragement.
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That which kindles, that which provokes, that which encourages, incitement, motive, encouragement, spur.
By Thomas Sheridan
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