sweetener

/'swi:tənə/

Thân thiện

A person adds a spoonful of sweetener to their morning coffee.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Something added to foods or drinks to make them taste sweeter: A substance, either natural or artificial, used to impart a sweet taste.
   • An inducement or incentive offered to make a proposal more attractive: Something given or promised to encourage someone to agree to something.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (Food additive):
  • Many diet sodas use artificial sweeteners instead of sugar.
  • Stevia is a popular natural sweetener.
• Noun (Incentive):
  • The company offered a signing bonus as a sweetener to get him to accept the job.
  • The tax break was a sweetener to attract new businesses to the area.

Advanced Usage

• "as a sweetener": Used to describe the role of an added benefit in a negotiation or deal.
  • They included an extra week of vacation as a sweetener in the contract.

Variants and Related Words

• Sweeten (verb): To make something sweet or more agreeable.
  • She sweetened her tea with honey.
  • The developer sweetened the offer to close the deal.
• Sweetening (noun): The act of making something sweet; a sweetener.
  • The sweetening of the beverage is done during production.

Synonyms

• For food additive: Sugar substitute, artificial sweetener.
• For incentive: Inducement, incentive, perk, bonus.

Related Phrases

• "Throw in a sweetener": To add an extra benefit to encourage agreement.
  • To secure the partnership, they threw in a sweetener by offering exclusive rights.

Related Idioms

• "Sweeten the pot": To make an offer more attractive by adding something of value.
  • They had to sweeten the pot with a higher salary to recruit the top candidate.

Học thuật

Noun

1. anything that serves as an enticement
2. something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bait
• come-on
• hook
• lure
• sweetening