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Meaning of incent | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/ɪnˈsɛnt/

Definitions

  1. To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
    US, transitive
  2. To provide an incentive for (something).
    US, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“We need to incent people to innovate more.”
“We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.”
“HUD programs to incent owners to maintain affordable housing units have preserved over 3,500 projects with about 300,000 units.”
“incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective”
“We need to incent more innovation.”
“DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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