incentive

/in'sentiv/

Thân thiện

The manager offered a bonus as an incentive for the team to meet their sales goal.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Something that encourages or motivates action: An "incentive" is a thing that persuades or influences someone to do something or to work harder, often by offering a reward or benefit.
   • A financial or other stimulus: Specifically, it can be an additional payment or benefit offered to employees to increase productivity or output.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The company offered a cash incentive for employees who met their sales targets.
  • The hope of a promotion is a powerful incentive for many workers.
  • Tax breaks serve as a major incentive for businesses to invest in renewable energy.

Advanced Usage

• "Act as an incentive": To function as a motivating factor.
  • The chance to travel can act as a strong incentive to learn a new language.
• "Provide/give an incentive": To supply a reason or reward to encourage an action.
  • The new policy provides a clear incentive for energy conservation.

Variants and Related Words

• Incentivize (verb): To provide someone with an incentive; to motivate.
  • The program aims to incentivize recycling by offering discounts.
• Disincentive (noun): Something that discourages or deters action; the opposite of an incentive.
  • High taxes can be a disincentive to investment.

Synonyms

• Motivation: The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
• Stimulus: Something that encourages activity or growth.
• Inducement: A thing that persuades or influences someone to do something.

Related Phrases

• Financial incentive: A monetary reward used to encourage a particular behavior.
  • The government offered financial incentives to first-time home buyers.
• Performance incentive: A reward tied directly to achieving specific goals or standards.
  • Her bonus is a performance incentive based on project completion.

Related Idioms

• "The carrot and the stick": This idiom refers to a policy of offering a combination of rewards ("the carrot," which functions as an incentive) and punishments ("the stick," a disincentive) to induce behavior.
  • Management used a carrot and stick approach, with bonuses as the incentive and warnings as the threat.

Học thuật

Noun

1. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
2. a positive motivational influence

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bonus
• inducement
• motivator