incentivize

• incentivise (non-Oxford British English)

From incentive +‎ -ize.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛntɪvaɪz/

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incentivize (third-person singular simple present incentivizes, present participle incentivizing, simple past and past participle incentivized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.

   The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.

   • 2024 October 30, Ethan Lang, “Toronto council to consider rental development incentives”, in CBC.ca‎^[1]:

     City staff are recommending ways Toronto can incentivize the construction of 20,000 purpose-built rental homes.

2. (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives to.

   They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

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

• disincentivize

• incent

• “incentivize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries