incentivize

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  1. transitive verb To offer incentives or an incentive to; motivate: "This bill will help incentivize everybody to solve that part of the problem” (Richard A. Gephardt).

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  • If the plan really paralleled Treasury Secretary's Timothy Geithner's proposal for dealing with Wall Street's toxic assets, it would "incentivize" the hedge funds to buy up hundreds of thousands or millions of cars, and hold them for later sale, when the overall economy improves. —  CounterPunch
  • At what point do you completely dis-incentivize the private market?
  • Isn't it time the governments of the world moved to a means of raising revenue that does not incentivize waste and boom / bust cycles? —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • But to avoid having affiliates incentivize people to subscribe, require people to subscribe for 3 months at a minimum. —  Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
  • After all, as CAP's Andrew Jakabovics noted, the previous $7,500 credit would have only saved "the average buyer the equivalent of a latte a month, which is not likely to incentivize anyone who is not already planning to buy a home, thus making it a poor use of taxpayer resources." —  Think Progress
 

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