Definitions For Incentivize

Verb

{{en-verb}} {{tlb, en, American spelling, Oxford British spelling}} (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage. : The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system. (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives to. : They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

Usage notes

Used relatively more than incent to refer to the use of systems of incentives.

Antonyms

disincentivize

Derived terms

incentivizer

Related terms

incent

Translations

German: begünstigen German: anreize schaffen, belohnen

Alternative forms

{{alter, en, incentivise, , non-Oxford}}

Etymology

incentive + ize