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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
incent .
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Examples
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He knows the compensation structure and what it incents.
The 14th Banker: So Bill Daley, Who's Your Daddy? The 14th Banker 2011
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It's powerful because it gives teachers a high degree of accountability AND responsibility, and thus attracts the right people and incents them to perform.
Tom Vander Ark: How to Pay Teachers Tom Vander Ark 2011
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He knows the compensation structure and what it incents.
The 14th Banker: So Bill Daley, Who's Your Daddy? The 14th Banker 2011
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It's powerful because it gives teachers a high degree of accountability AND responsibility, and thus attracts the right people and incents them to perform.
Tom Vander Ark: How to Pay Teachers Tom Vander Ark 2011
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He knows the compensation structure and what it incents.
The 14th Banker: So Bill Daley, Who's Your Daddy? The 14th Banker 2011
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If you make the new cost revenue neutral (by reducing income taxes), the government incents work and discourages carbon emitting.
Global Warming and the Minefield of Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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If one assumes that only junior officials commit fraud and that the corporation wishes to prevent their frauds and will take prompt, effective action against them upon another employee blowing the whistle, then paying whistleblowers will only cause a substantial reduction in fraud if it incents correctly blowing the whistle in cases where the employee would otherwise have failed to blow the whistle.
William K. Black: Why Cash Incentives for Whistleblowers Are So Useful Against Control Frauds William K. Black 2010
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If one assumes that only junior officials commit fraud and that the corporation wishes to prevent their frauds and will take prompt, effective action against them upon another employee blowing the whistle, then paying whistleblowers will only cause a substantial reduction in fraud if it incents correctly blowing the whistle in cases where the employee would otherwise have failed to blow the whistle.
William K. Black: Why Cash Incentives for Whistleblowers Are So Useful Against Control Frauds William K. Black 2010
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Knowing that their efforts matter on a larger scale, incents them to do their best work.
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: The Best Answers to: How Do You Manage? 2010
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Knowing that their efforts matter on a larger scale, incents them to do their best work.
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: The Best Answers to: How Do You Manage? 2010
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