incentivize
Offer a reward
To incentivize is to motivate through rewards or benefits—creating reasons for someone to act a certain way.
Businesses incentivize customers with discounts, governments incentivize behavior through tax breaks: The company incentivized early adoption with a reduced rate.
The word is corporate jargon that has spread into general use, sometimes attracting criticism as bureaucratic bloat where "encourage" or "reward" would do.
Reward beyond expectation
- prizeReward for winning
- perkEmployment bonus
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- compensationPayment for services rendered
remuneration · payout · dividend · bounty · gratuity · honorarium · benefit · scholarship
Edible orange taproot
- lureThing that tempts
- enticementSomething that attracts
- sweetenerAdditive reducing bitterness
- baitLure for prey
temptation · allurement · persuasion · draw · attraction · appeal · hook · come-on
bonus
Reward beyond expectation
- prizeReward for winning
- perkEmployment bonus
- commissionPayment for services rendered
compensation · remuneration · payout · dividend · bounty · gratuity · honorarium · benefit · scholarship · windfall
carrot
Edible orange taproot
- lureThing that tempts
- enticementSomething that attracts
- sweetenerAdditive reducing bitterness
bait · temptation · allurement · persuasion · draw · attraction · appeal · hook · come-on · bargain
motivate
Cause to act
galvanize · stimulate · drive · energize · propel · activate · prompt · urge · push · ignite
policy
Adopted principle of action
- programPlanned sequence of actions
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- frameworkUnderlying support system
structure · mechanism · system · approach · plan · model · design · methodology · alignment · implementation
- buzzwordssynergy, leverage, paradigm, stakeholder, scalable
- corporate jargonsynergy, stakeholders, deep dive, circle back, leverage
- grammar debatesirregardless, ain't, split infinitive, singular they, could of
- promotionpromote, advertise, market, sell, endorse
- tech buzzwordsAI, cloud, blockchain, synergy, disrupt
incentivizedisincentivize
Make something less attractive
discourage · deter · demotivate · dissuade · penalize
incentivizeleave alone
Refrain from disturbing
let be · hands-off · laissez-faire · neglect
disincentivize, incentivized, incentivizing, incentivise, incentivizes, incentivised, incentivises, incentivising, incentivization