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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of incentivize.

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Examples

  • In this latest chapter, the half-marketized banking sector has also opened its doors to new practices unheard of in China before, namely, "incentivized risk taking" and "leveraged platforms," with greater potential to wreak havoc.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Somehow, I doubt that Mankiw himself would be "incentivized" to reduce his own travel by automobile by the modest tax he proposes.

    Greg Mankiw Pumps for a Higher Gas Tax, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • What they have "incentivized" executives to do, in countless cases, is not to perform, but to game the system, to smooth the numbers, to take insane risks with other people's money, to do whatever had to be done to ring the bell and send the dollars coursing their way into the designated bank account.

    Let's Move Their Cheese 2009

  • Potential new vehicle buyers who are actively shopping in anticipation of a purchase within the next few weeks can choose from several heavily "incentivized" Consumer Reports-recommended GM and Ford vehicles (including related Saab and Volvo models) to meet their needs; there are no CR-recommended Chrysler-made cars.

    Best new car deals - American style 2008

  • Potential new vehicle buyers who are actively shopping in anticipation of a purchase within the next few weeks can choose from several heavily "incentivized" Consumer Reports-recommended GM and Ford vehicles including related Saab and Volvo models to meet their needs; there are no CR-recommended Chrysler-made cars.

    Best new car deals - American style 2008

  • The only conditions under which a credit check could be viewed as necessary/reasonable, is if you have access to information in the organization that is so sensitive, or so potentially destructive to the organization, that you could be financially "incentivized" to do something inappropriate with your access.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

  • The US Chamber of Commerce - one of the Obama Administration's staunchest opponents - is using "incentivized" web ads to get people involved in their campaign to fight health care reform.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

  • He came of age in a time when hardworking young men and women like him went to Wall Street or to Silicon Valley, and-once properly "incentivized" by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton-seemed to save the national economy, creating what appeared to be great general prosperity while doing well themselves.

    Harper's Magazine 2010

  • Spitzer explained how both Wall Street and the BP oil crisis were caused by the same flawed template: Risk was "incentivized" on the assumption that someone else would pay the tab for error.

    IndyStar.com Top Stories 2010

  • The idea is for all of you to be financially "incentivized" to be on time.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

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